Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1919 — WEALTH FROM WASTE [ARTICLE]

WEALTH FROM WASTE

Products of Value Recovered From Discarded Material. War Experience Insnqland Proves That Refuse Can Be Turned to Profit. London.—The question of recovering products of value and futility frony matter previously thrown away is one that at last |s receiving the attention Its importance deserves, says S. Howard Withey/A. L. A. A. is the authority for the report that during the .war an organized system of waste prevention in alLjnllltary camps enabled the i ministry ■of munitions to obtain large quantities of gylcterin for~the making of munitions, which not only increased directly *nd materially our supply of the sinews of war, butgnabled the officers in charge of meting to provide better and larger quantities of food for the men,

extra pay for cooks and better facilities for- canteens and spoVts. Large quantities In the aggregate of marrow and other bones, drippings, rabbit skins and so on, which were previously either thrown away or not put to the- best advantage, were sold In the national interest to recognized government contractors at good prices, thereby increasing the amount of money for general messing purposes. j~ A large revenue was derived in Mesopotamia by a system of organized collection and treatment of caqjp waste Tor the prime purpose of Recovering the valuable fats and glycerin. Nearly every kind of industrial w&ste can be treated successfully from a commercial point of view. Thereare large profits to be made by the recovery, for Instance, from old tinware and cuttings. These can be. scientifically and profitably treated by first removing every tface of grease (which is In Itself no small source of

revenue) and all the solder recovered. At present solder Is commanding a high price: The steel jase tin plate is coated with a valuable tin. This tin can be removed and run into Ingots and is then quite ready for sale to the original factories to be coated. The remaining scrap can be compressed Into bales and dispatched tb the foundries to be remelted and appear again as new steel and ready to w be turned into steel plates at the rolling mills, and recoated with the tin already ’removed from It when ItWaa in its disused state.