HOW WASTE PRODUCTS MAY HELP HOSPITALS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 13

HOW WASTE PRODUCTS MAY HELP HOSPITALS

SOUTH AFRICAN SCHEME How waste products, usually thrown into the dustbin as a matter of course, can be utilised to provide money for hospitals, is shown by a scheme now under way in South Africa. An appeal is being made to the general public of every class, creed and colour by “The Cape Province Waste Products’ Organisation.” The following is a list of the “waste products” asked for: Silver paper off cigarettes, choco-. lates, all edibles and photo films; lead out of tea packets and boxes and any bits of lead piping, sinkers, etc.; empty tubes that have contained dental paste, toilet cream, shaving soap, etc.; capsules off wine, whisky bottles, etc. (excepting “crown corks” on aerated waters, ales and stout).

There is no market in Capetown for this waste, but exceptionally low overseas freight has been granted the organisation, and as quotations from reliable smelting works in London stand at from £45 to £75 a ton, it will be seen that, if one member of every household, university, college, school, hotel, boarding-house, tearoom and cafe in the Cape Province begins saving “waste products,” a large sum will soon be realised in aid of hospitals.