WASTE MATERIAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20527, 10 April 1941, Page 6

WASTE MATERIAL

FURTHER COLLECTION BIG GISBORNE EFFORT DAY AFTER ANZAC DAY FOIL WRAPS VALUABLE

A further waste metal drive is to be undertaken in Gisborne on April 20. the day after Aii7.ae Day. and householders are urged to save any article that might be of value in the war effort. Among the many things which people ordinarily throw away are wrappings from chocolates, cigarettes and photographic films. These wrappings may be of aluminium or lead foil, and, to facilitate sorting, householders are asked not to mix them. Aluminium wrapping may be detected by the application of a match. Lead foil will melt with the heat of a match, but aluminium, which is lighter, will not. Both are valuable.

Lead photographic film tubes, linings of tea packages, cosmetic, tooth paste and shaving cream tubes and any kind of lead are required. Another thing that is often thrown away from the average household is defective electric light bulbs. The glass should be broken off these, care being taken to see that the glass does not cut the hand, and the ends saved for the collection.

These are only some of the articles that will yield metal of value, but till copper, copper wire, brass, bronze, gunmetal, aluminium foil, lead, and zinc are required in the war effort.

Cartage to Dumps

The collections are being arranged by the Gisborne committee of the National Council for the Reclamation of Waste Materials. As in the previous effort in September last, the carriers are arranging for the ultimate collection of the materials from depots . hroughout the town and district. Boy Scouts have agreed to collect from the homes and take the materials lo local depots from which the carriers' collections will be simplified.

Householders are being asked to make a search between now and the eoilection date for any disused article or waste metal of the classes mentioned above and to place all articles available outside their gates on the morning of April 26. The Boy Scouts will collect from each road, and if the metal is in handy piles they will be more easily handled. An excellent response was made at the previous collection, but it is believed that there must be still many articles that were overlooked at that time and many that will have accumulated in the meantime. The purpose of this drive is to secure everything possible that can be unearthed. A generous response is sought.