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Show m WASTE MADE I0JXPL0SIVES Cotton Cuttings and Old Boots Are Utilized in I I Many Useful Ways. LONDON, Feb. .Valuable dihcover- ies are being made almost every wck 1 bv the organization for utilizing what nas army wjste. Two of the Ut-M concern con-cern cotton cuttings and old boots. Makers of cotton Roods for 1 he arm' send their cuttings to central depots. The. first consignment of these rutting-, h:is produced 110 ions of material for explosives. explo-sives. I-Yoin old army bootw unfit for wer by anybody, sulphate of ammonia i obtTined and used as a fertilizer of land. Grease, anlm.il charcoal and meiat are also re,,oered. Bust from shoddy mil's Is another fertilizer: fer-tilizer: the wool contains 11 per cent of nitrogen. Farmers in Kent give a price ; whi'-li Waves a pront a-fier paying the carrmge from Yorkshir. All used-up woolen goods left -of f tunics and other artlcis--are put through the shoddy mills. Already :'. wcirt h of wool has b cn recovered h nd dr- ided between t he army and tSe pun-li'- for remaking Into i-loth. '.'onfiiin 'jf camp swill tubs have produced sufp-int j glycerine to provide eplosie for h.im'i,. fnWt i-pnnnder shePs. Potii the ajic , sourco the tallow it rcovt red to swp-plv swp-plv all the poap re pi i red bv the na vy. iinnv and nvrnntent. Th-re is a a surplus valued at l,00,nv'J so far for the use of tne public. After the war ail t hee processes will be public property and the utilisation of waste will become an important British Brit-ish industry on new line,s. |