VALUABLE RUBBISH

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 553, 30 December 1925, Page 8

VALUABLE RUBBISH

INTERESTING FINDS (TilT/D IX BiAOS BFNDLE Some wry interesting “finds from London dustbins are'brought to ’light week b'v. week. Among the old tins, brass, copper, and other metal, all of which are of extreme value, have been' discovered silver teaspoons and purses containing money and season tickets, besides many Treasury notes. Other things thrown away by tnvs- ; take are gold and diamond rings, and even a whole ease of jewellery has been reported as part of the contents ; of one bin. Perhaps the most startling find of all was when a dustman thoupght lie had discovered a bundle of rags to sell as “tots,” and when lie opened it what should lie see but a. little child, W7i‘cn loads arrive at the dostruetor —a construction composed of 12 or 1-1 great fires, each as big as an ordinary kitchen range, with a huge chimney belching forth black smoke night and day—the dustmen rake oyer the refuse to see that nothing of aiiy value is burned But to ho able to find a Oin blue and white vase or silver saltspoon in 20, 40, or 60 .tons of rubbish is almost an impossibility. Still more difficult is it to find a wedding ring, /espeeialy when one considers that, on an average' there are about 0200 bins of refuse Tn every 40 : tons collected. Much ,of the refuse which cannot be disposed of in' any other way) is sent by rail to farms, there to lm used to assist the growth of vegetables. •• •