RECLAMATION OF WASTE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 229, 26 August 1940, Page 2

RECLAMATION OF WASTE.

NON-EERROUS AIETALS. AIDING THE AVAR EFFORT. Determined in its effort to aid every war ■ activity, no doubt the public will respond promptly and as generously as possible to th© national appeal now being made by the National Council for the Reclamation of AVaste Alaterial, for certain non-rusting metals. Forced by the difficulty in securing supplies of war materials from the usual overseas sources, the council has carefully planned a policy of waste conservation in the Dominion. Householders in particular arc now invited to contribute broken or disused household utensils and gadgets of metal to aid the production of aeroplanes and munitions of war. The scheme is based on voluntary contribution, and “waste” required will be dealt with sectionally. Each section will be planned in such a way that following collection the material, after preliminary classification, will be freighted to named receiving points for processing purposes. In the case of non-rusting metals, the Alinister of Supply (Hon. D. G. Sullivan) has arranged to purchase .the bulk at fixed prices delivered at four railway workshops, situated at Otahulni, AVoburn, Addington, and Hillside, where they will be first smelted into ingots or processed for the manufacture of weapons of war. All proceeds from the sale will be paid into the several patriotic funds.

Responses made to similar appeals in Great Britain and the Commonwealth of Australia have exceeded all expectations, and it is felt that New Zealanders will equally show their enthusiastic interest and express their patriotism by backing this effort to the full. As has been emphasised, our citizens are expected to give all useful waste voluntarily; people of enemy countries are not so fortunate, for in Germany, for instance, during the past six years saving of waste was mado compulsory and disobedience to the decree meant for the offenders a term in the dreaded concentration camps. After the collection of metals, the council proposes to issue bulletins covering paper, textile, and bags required. Several other forms of so-called “waste” are being scrutinised with the idea of ascertaining whether their collection will prove helpful and economical, either to aid the war effort or to assist local industries. Tho council has been assured of the assistance and co-operation of boards and committees set un in every province and centre of the Dominion, comprising representative citizens who have volunteered their services. These boards and committees will make the necessary arrangements for the collection of all waste from every home, office, and factory, and will arrange dumps or receiving points, and in many cases will attend to the sorting and classification of material,, where such sorting has not already been done by the contributors concerned.