SHOCKING WASTE OF SEWAGE
(Special Correspondent.)
Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, July 24, Why use good food for making bad wool? asked Dr H. Levenstein, when ad dressing the In,ternatiohal r 'iGhemica. Congress 'oh the prospect,' bf future 'isup plies of 'raw malefials' for rayon. Dr x.evenstem thougnt that ior Britain the production of textile fibres from food protein was an unsound line Among other things, he said, methant ana ammoma from sewage couid oe made to give nylon. ■tie commented tnat the negiect oi town sewage was a shocking waste. It was treated as a nuisance to be got cid of instead of a source of supply tor industry and agriculture. He addea ;hat in England the most promising lource of cellulose for rayon was probibly straw while thousands of tons oi seaweed about the coast might bo turned into fibres.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 July 1947, Page 5
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