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WEALTH THROWN AWAY.

WASTED. BYrPRODUCTS. HOW MONET MIGHT BE SAVED. x Everywhere we look we see denceajif an almost criminal waste of good material. In many large countries by-products and what we call "waste" are scientifically dealt with, and thousands of pounds are saved even,' year. Take, for instance, sawdust. Hundredweights of it go up in smoke every week in Auckland. In America, England, and Germany it is mixed with oil, and by the aid of machinery is eventually placed on tho market in the form of linoleum and floor coverings. Potato peelings are valued in the same countries for the spirit than can be extracted from them; all paper, rags, aad such are used in the manufacture of paper; old tins are de-tinned and the solder from the joints recovered; fats and greases are used in the manufacture of soaps; and the offal from abattoirs, together with the" house-hold garbage, is utilised in the making of fertilisers. With the exception of the offal, the items mentioned are thrown away in. New Zealand. Benzine tins are not discarded in the quantity that they once were, and firms are using them as sugar bins and oil drums, while many householders have realised that the empty tins make excellent buckets, drinking i troughs for poultry, etc. | Motor tyres in a great many instances are cast aside as useless, but they make good firing, and, cut into ! short lengths, are just the thing for i-boiling the copper on washing,day. | THE INVENTIVE MIND. I That inventiveness in its application to economy is fascinating and profitable is demonstrated very convinolngly by Mie array of contribution of sound practical ideas which are being contributed towards the "save the waste" problem in other countries. The potato-peelings attracted one economist, who with this apparently useless material made a biscuit. Another manufactured something in the nature of candied sugar from a few ounces of fat. from a whale. A bold attempt to turn spent tea-leaves to account was made by another., H* mixed the tea-leaves with, sawdust, and, compressing the mass, produced a small fire-lighter. And; so it goes on. Not here in New Zealand, but in the bigger countries of the world where the waste is extensive, the "waste specialist" is continually endeavouring to solve the problem 6f all apparently useless materials, and evolve some process whereby the waste can be utilised and again presented to the world in /form. >

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Shannon News, 13 June 1924, Page 4

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WEALTH THROWN AWAY. Shannon News, 13 June 1924, Page 4

WEALTH THROWN AWAY. Shannon News, 13 June 1924, Page 4

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