MONEY IN RUBBISH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

MONEY IN RUBBISH.

AN ACCIDENTAL BEGINNING.

SUSTENANCE FOR ORPHANS.

A London man has kept over a thousand orphans for twenty years on tho salo of rubbish. It began quite accidentally when he was asked to send a boy to cart away some rubbish from a private house. Turning over what tho boy brought back in a wheelbarrow, tho man decided that most of it was saleable, and would help to support his orphans. Ho inquired at other houses in tho neighbourhood, and found many pcoplo anxious to get rid of old odds and ends, until finally tho collection of rubbish became the orphanage's regular means of support. Now five vans comb Greater London daily for rubbish, and return laden to the depot at nightfall, where an army of sorters aro waiting to sift tho rubbish and to send it where it will bring money for the orphans. Those vans collect anything and everything. Beforo now they havo brought home a grand piano, an organ, and a manorial staircase. Yet some of tho most valuable rubbish they collect is linen, rag, bottles and jars, and old newspapers. Occasionally people? throw away valuables without realising it, and ring up tho depot frantically to see if a diamond tiepin has fallen among tho old newspapers. Onco a five-pound nolo was discovered shut up in a book.