WASTE PAPER IN DEMAND

Southland Times, Issue 25478, 26 September 1944, Page 6

WASTE PAPER IN DEMAND

USE FOUND BY DEPOT Provided it is clean and free from oil a use can be found for any sort of waste paper. This statement was made by Mr J. Pickard, chairman of the Southland Council for the Reclamation of Waste Material, in an interview with a reporter of The Southland Times yesterday. Mr Pickard said that most of the paper received at the depot in Esk street was baled and sent to the mills at Mataura. On an average about 50 bales a month were sent from the depot. For some time after the depot opened the average was 80 bales _ a month, but at that time large supplies of waste paper that had accumulated in offices and business establishments over a period of years were being sent to the depot. It was uncommon to receive such accumulations now. NEWSPAPERS FOR WRAPPING

Although the Mataura mills would take only a certain proportion of printed paper, such as newspapers and magazines, there was a keen demand for the surplus. Shopkeepers wanted newspapers for wrapping up certain goods and the demand was so great that it was impossible to meet it from the supplies available at the depot. For magazines and other printed paper not suitable for wrapping purposes there was a keen demand from firms that required paper for packing goods. Last year the depot sold two tons of this paper at £2B a ton to a Christchurch firm which required it for packing goods sent out for the Christmas trade.

Referring to waste rubber Mr Pickard said that two trucks of old tyres, about 10 tons in all, were sent to the factory in Woolston from Invercargill last week and that two more trucks would be forwarded this week. In addition there was a truck lot to be sent from Tuatapere and another from Woodlands.