RAID PROBLEM

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21280, 26 November 1940, Page 9

RAID PROBLEM

BROKEN GLASS WASTE CARTED TO DUMPS (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, September 27 Tons of broken glass provide one of the “r%fuse disposal” problems of the bombing of London, says the News Chronicle. There is heavy plate glass from the luxury stores of the West End, ancient stained glass from the windows of City churches, cheap glass from the casements of Dockland. Hundreds of vanloads have been swept and carted off the streets during the last few weeks, and many News Chronicle readers have asked, “is this glass melted down and used again?” Only a small proportion can be used again. To the trade, broken glass, when cleaned and carefully graded, is known as cullets, one of the raw materials of new glass. The quantities provided by Goering’s air force, however, are so large that they cannot be absorbed, even if it were an economic proposition to sort them from other air raid rubbish. The destination of a good deal of London’s broken glass must, therefore, be a refuse dump. In spite of the heavy breakages, there is no great demand for new glass. Once windows are destroyed, most property owners prefer to board them up.