RECOVERING WASTE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1944, Page 7

RECOVERING WASTE

PAPER, RAGS, RUBBER

CONTINUATION AFTER THE WAR

In the four years that the National Council for the Reclamation of Waste Material and district committees have been operating 20,000 tons of waste paper has been sent to the mills, 2000 tons of non-ferrous metals and cast •iron, and 4,000,000 glass containers have been collected. Since Japan entered the war 2910 tons of rubber have been handled, ijn addition to this, quantities of light bulb caps, collapsible tubes, rags, sacks, and other waste have been gathered. The total paid to the Patriotic Fand.Boardv has been £35,479. "Evidence is accumulating that there will be a long-term demand for waste paper for the pulping plants and that rubber tyres and tubes will be required for reclaim purposes," states the annual report of the council, in discussing the continuation of waste reclamation after the war. "Rags for pulping for paper, or for use in felt factories, have for years been marketable, and a local and export demand is generally available for sorted cleaning rags The disruption of world trade, the call on shipping to freight essential goods only, ail point to the need for citizen thrift and co-operation in saving anything useful. Particularly has this i comment application to a long-term policy respecting waste paper and rubber. . hf ,council therefore requests its affiliated committees, and calls on citiTZL aS & patriotic duty, to concentrate during the current year on the collec- j tion of these materials, and next to give attention to any local calls by industry for used waste. Indeed, continued co-operation with industrialists is strongly emphasised; it ? will lighten i S^^ ent + Pr°blems, strengthen the! economic sstructure, and, more important still, will continue to conserve space m overseas .stopping- for essen-' p#Lt°lTOdl-tl!s-and have the general effect of maintaining lower prices of I processed articles." The council knows f?Jh« th?i re-? Ort> that .work done i m the collection and disposal of wanted IS^ftSft. 1188 convinced the Government that the prodigal carelessness ?L?l P0T g Oi ,usefld'discarded matepuJ^SS ? re or + dutn Ppg should not be allowed to continue in future *i J?- 6 + twelvf months ended March and isn7 f S °f PaPeJ were collected, and 1807 tons of rubber. Total net credits earned were £11,614, the gross revenue being £19,427 and the expenses £7813. Auckland Province Ti 11? lamed1 arned £4618 net avenue g?S' £24?n St laf over Canterbury' with £2450. Next came Otago with ■ £.\2V> £ Olfs fsT ed + by * Wellington with £1104. Wellington's figure is a decrease on that of the previous year Sort 355 States- that rent tranJ: w iV cnar £es were relatively higher in Wellington than in other centres Ton anf VSZT -to Wellingto^infreSed", heSJ 01 pape? and rubber were an'the^entri? '^ °f of