PAPER, RUBBER, TIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 4

PAPER, RUBBER, TIN

In another reminder to everyone that waste reclamation is everyone's responsibility, the deputy chairman of the Wellington Committee, Mr. R. L. Grant, said yesterday that waste paper collected in Wellington city and suburbs has now reached 50 tons a week, and for the whole metropolitan area 100 tons a week. Householders who could not arrange for the delivery of paper to the depot in Lombard Street should not hesitate to telephone the headmaster of the nearest school, and school children would collect it. Mr. Grant again praised the school organisations most highly for waste paper collections, pupils and teachers alike. Rubber collected in Wellington some months ago had been sorted, he said, and all recoverable tyres were under cover; from th*e rest and miscellaneous rubber 50 truckloads of scrap had been sent to the mills at Penrose for reclamation. Salving of toothpaste, shaving cream, cosmetic, and similar "squeeze" tubes has now become of particular importance, for the metal of which they are made is either pure tin. or is very largely tin. and pure tin is in extremely short supply since the Japanese have over-run Malaya the source of the world's greatest supply. Shopkeepers have been asked to place bins for old tubes in their shops. Not one should be thrown out in general refuse. All rubber and all old tyres should be put aside for the next rubber drive. As there were no petitions in bankruptcy filed in Wellington last month the total for the year remains at three, as compared with five in the first four months of 1942. There was one petition in April of last year.