£20,000 FROM TINFOIL
RUBBISH IS MADE VALUABLE More than 100 tons of tinfoil, lead capsules, tooth-paste tubes, and other waste metals, averaging £20 a ton in value, was received by the Ancient Order of Druids Tinfoil Fund in England last year for hospitals and in- j stitutions. Since the fund began in 1912, between 850 and 800 tons of metal, forI meny thrown away as worthless rubj bish, had been sold, realising upward j of £20,000. The total collected in 1932 exceeded the 1931 collection by seven and a-half tons. 1
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 532, 16 May 1933, Page 7
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91£20,000 FROM TINFOIL Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 532, 16 May 1933, Page 7
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