PAPER FROM SANDBAGS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1919, Page 3

PAPER FROM SANDBAGS.

ARMY WASTE BEING TURNED

INTO GOLD

Immense quantities of material used in the military works and the camps now being cleared away oil the east coast are to he collected, sorted, and despatched to various places for salvage purposes, (says a London paper ol January 21st). The. barbed wire is to be baled and sent to wire manufacturers for melting down and remaking into ordinary wire. Enormous numbers of sandbags will he made into paper. Already large quantities of brown paper have been manufactured from those hags, Many uses are being found for the timber. Gigantic stacks of old beer bottles have been collected. Whole bottles, are going t<> various manufacturers who need them. The broken bottles arc ground down for use in glass paper. This paper represents a combination ol three forms of salvage; the paper hacking is made of rags, the substance with which the glass powder is stuck on is made from hones, and the powder is from broken bottles. Old corks are being made into cork mats, old boots into clogs by putting wooden soles on to the old uppers, and wasie leather into leather dust for manure purposes. From old army Ijoots, the following have been obtained : Grease (from the uppers) : nitrogem us meal, useful as a fel l ili.ser ; a ionium sulphate; charcoal for dc.-olonvieg pur-

poses; scrap metal (nails and lips J nun the soles); glue and gelatine size, (from chrome leather waste).