SALVAGE CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1941, Page 8

SALVAGE CAMPAIGN

EXCELLENT RESULTS

BRITISH HOUSEWIVES HELP

(By Air Mall—From "The Post's" London Representative.)

LONDON, February 10

Britain's \ salvage campaign has had excellent results. British houseAvives have helped to save enough scrap metal to build 16,000 tanks in addition to some 250,000 tons of paper—or enough to make 40 shiploads. It is estimated that last year enough metal, paper, bones, and pig swill Avere salvaged to fill 100 ships, and that such shiploads Avould have cost the country £8,000,----000. The total actual weight of salvaged material Avas 800,000 tons, Avhich Avas sold by local councils for £2.200,000.

These facts haA'e been giA 7en by Mr. Harold G. Judd, Controller of Salvage at the Ministry of Supply. He said that Avhile the figures were good, they were not good enough, and that Britain Avas not salvaging enough. He hinted that some kind of compulsion might be introduced. "We ha\'e got to regard the throAving aAvay of material that might be used again as something approaching a crime," he said.

All manner of saving is being carried out. Over 1,000,000 torch batteries are collected weekly to recover carbon and metals; 1000 tons of bones are collected monthly to make glue, glycerine, and fertilisers. Kitchen waste collected by local councils is sufficient to feed 100,000 pigs. Mr. Judd has appealed to houseAvives and councils to co-operate for a greater effort.