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Evening Star, Issue 16677, 8 March 1918, Page 8

MAKING ROADS OUT OF OLD BOOTS. Roads can be made from the enormous quantity of "worn-out boots condemned by the 'British Army, according to an article in ‘ Nature.’' The ‘ Scientific American,’ commenting upon this, says:—“"While there are more profitable uses for uppers, the scrap 'leather of soles is mixed in the proportion of from 5 to 10 per cent, with slag, granite, or limestone, in conjunction with asphalt and bitumen. Tho mixture is known as ‘ Broughite,' and is said to possess the hardness and rigidity of the ordinary tar macadam road, with greater resilience and less dust. The British Roads Board are now experimenting with it. Waste leather is also used for making animal charcoal, and a by-product >of this process is , ammonium sulphate, suitable for use as a fertiliser. Uppers, yield a considerable quantity of grease, available for use in currying leather and for thor purposes. Several minor uses of old boots are mentioned, including the manufacture of leather board, leather pulp, washers, mats, cyanides, prussiates, glue, and