Valuable Rubish.
What ia one man's rubbish is another man's treasure, or what is the refuse oE one business is the foundation of another. Thus the goldsmith's filiugs and sweepings are reproduced as metal, and the diamond cutter's dust is made available for fresh operations, while the residual products of, gasworks moved an El Dwado to
such men as W. H. Perkins and the pioneers of the aniline dyes. Of old the refuse from the rope-making yardi at Chatham was burnt as useless, but it has been discovered that it can be used in the manufacture of brown paper. It would be difficult to find any sort of refuse nowadays of which one or another class of paper cannot be made. Bookbinders' boards are made of the refuse of oakum factories and from tarred ropes. The carcases of dead horses are utilised in a dozen varied industries, and while the skins of hares and rtbbits in tbe various procefse3 they undergo beforo they arrive in the fur market fiud employment for 15,000 people, they also provide a long kind of hair which, being drawn from the ski»s, is fabricated into bedstu fling, &c, aud is used in the weaving of cotton and eilk. The Russians felt and varnish it, and make papier macfae goods from it.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2288, 6 January 1898, Page 54
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216Valuable Rubish. Otago Witness, Issue 2288, 6 January 1898, Page 54
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