| Show I WAR wk STOPS WILFUL WASTE t cf 1 1 MS fa e 1 fJ a r r t f In things that not so 80 very rip ng ago were considered useless anden and anden en unprofitable unprofitable- trash have bum built up a adne that in capita Involved and ateria handled ranks rank with mOst cognized industries Greater results ye been obtained from the saving of 01 ste to materials than from the n of barren lands The waste marial ma- ma rial dealers are the true conserva conserva- have reclaimed millions dollars from the dump heaps Iii rough rough- rought t the HOLLER HO LLER former r President of the Na nat nal Association of 01 Waste Material alert ale By ALD L. L FOSTER AR stops w waste te Paradoxical perhaps but e. e It Is the new new- principle ot of eco eco- macs The of the the junkman at hand Mr Hofeller's statement I quoted above is a a. far cry from thew ther the r w Some rags June have gone up per c cent nt bottles sacks or of yesterday day there Is invested In the indus Indus- of making over scrap n material the st sum Bum of The firms do a business of f more than a year how the war has boomed their business rites have been sent soaring This s made Jt it possible to transport waste m far pointS pointS' that Was never ble bIe Despised junk Is now now h raw material Why woollen rags worth almost their weIght in gold y 1 cost three times as much as they thel the war Some rags have havee e up per cent And so we get strange anomaly that some rags ch more than raw wool Why use they have been dyed and deal deal- want ant those precious dyes back and in-and they get them With Gerny Ger Ger- ny blockaded no dyes or many or of loh ich they have a a. monopoly can come me t. t hoddy You turn your nose nose at It you realize that shod y Is the only ng that has baa enabled the poor to we wear r rollen ollen clothing at an all Or that that with with- t deception to the tailors It Is used face Ce some of the finest cloths cloths' In InIch inich Ich the Beau Brummels of today day be themselves This because it makes otter etter finish took ok at the romance ot of C tar CO dumped into luto vile-smelling vile heaps refuse or pumped Into the river taU tott to- to U tt yields more th than n 2000 colors Ides drugs preservatives medIcines flavors synthetic sug sugar r and nine perfumes chemicals and what There is a business of more than In coal tar products by-products to- to And this Is nota not 1 part of the I Iness of utilizing waste either for tor l 1 tar is no longer counted as waste t as a useful product from baking 1 and making illuminating gas ot of it e PO pounds d. d of tar from very every ton tOI E 1 tar far once dumped as refuse toay to- to ay ar more than 2000 colors besIdes flavors medicines Sc the most precious ot of all the yield m coal ermany has gotten rIght down to mess Iness with Its war waste to day o Is the chief interest to the visitor who can get end Ind he Collection point It uld be 00 In plain junk English pile ly It contains the gleanings ot of the Every ery conceivable object n m obits ot of rubber to broken bayonets pIeces of 01 exploded shells are col ed and an l. l sorted rung over everything Car es are saved out and water bottles l i I and clothes still tit fit to wear are piled up The bayonets go to one place to tobe tobe be made over the rifles are overhauled every kind of make and come back like new burst out tires go to the melting pot and come back backas as sound white while ones A big laundry cleans garm ts every month Damaged artillery goon goeS to shops where i it t is repaired Wheels are remade barrels A Anew new sun gun is often oUen made out of the undamaged parts of several guns collectively put out of business L Leather ather Is s set to other uses shoes are and repaired and straps that are I torn are cut int into oth other r widths sled and lengths hs and put to other tasks And what do we do here along flar filar lines Unes in these leaping peace days I Well for example we work over tin cans cans-a perfect mine of et Yealth wealth and nd I iron scrap and get back worth of useful metal again Our tinis tin I Is used over and over Before the war scrap iron brought 1075 a t ton ln now It has gone up to 1850 Melted back Into Int ingots It is quite as good as ever Steel rails discarded by the big roll roads are into rails for less important lines where lighter ones will willo d do o or are bought by contractors for tor the use t their service on big jobs I Scrap copper is worth almost almot as much as new metal War boosted the price regularlY so that by the thc end of 1915 ne now stuff 23 cents a pound and the old fetched 19 cents and a business sS or of in it Scrap zinc once a drug on the market at 4 cents a a. pound is 13 cents at this writing Save it I Here are the figures in tons ot of recovered recovered re covered ni metals from Uncle sams Sam's junk pile for just a year Br Brass ss copper specter spelter lead zinc 3 14 tin anti antimony aI ti mony aluminum The Th recovered re re recovered covered metals metals totalled True Indeed the statement of a busl busi- b I i Potash is now made from heaps of seaweed ness genius that our next gr great at fortunes for tor tunes will wUl be taken from the from the Junk heap With crude rubber at 1 a pound now and all the warring nations gobbling gobbling gob gob- bling every ounce they can beg or seize or buy no wonder r there Is is' a steady demand tor old garden hose base I rubbers rUbber tires antics tubes auto peelings wringers car springs horseshoe horse shoe pads matting and packing airl air air- l o ake rake hose fire hose and tubes Prices In these discards of lire life fluctuate dally daily just as stocks and bonds do All go t to e the melting pot at from one cent to to ten cents cents cents' a pound and tome come back bac k brand new newt You haven't a pound or of old anti ant many mony lYing around the shop per haps The foxy Chinese have h ve cor It because of its great demand deman d for munitions ot of war war-to say nothing rig ot of type Once it was as worth riga a aton ton now you pay gold a ton to tor r the same Why Because It is d with steel for tor shells making it more mor e brittle Thus It breaks into r pieces when It explodes Nice thought though t for the men In the trenches what S So they are working over old oid wo worn out type here and broad abroad and exploded ex shell fragments to get bac back k this precious near metal Tungsten Is used In making tool steel for which there is an enormous s demand Before the tho war it brought brough t 60 cents a a. pound Today day it Is 6 5 a pou pound d and a a. ton ot ore brings So precious Is that even th tha o assay office office-i. are are being scoured fo for r specimens and every ounce Al f It i Is s I being reclaimed that can be be found nr Brokers do not sneer at a trade one In-one pound lots and d to to quote quo e the Waste Wast e Trade Journal Journal the thep purchasing agent ot or the Crucible Steel Company Is ve very Y grateful If somebody can give him pounds And says the editor theres an overnight fortune fortuno for the l an who can reclaim it from old t tools is and such A lot of clever men are trying but nothing doIng y yet t. t Rags are the Bethlehem Steel of the junkman ans an's s trade Two million dollars dollars' worth have just gone to England to tomake tomake make shoddy Rags that brought 4 cents a pound now bring 14 tailors tailors' clippings once quoted at 7 cents are arenow arenow now 21 cents Black worsteds aristocrats aris- aris or of the species fetch tetch 32 Gents cents a pound England alone can use pounds of rags a year I This country imports worth of w aate te rags every year just to make writing paper I I c LJ f Q r fit n I I tons of flax straw have hav been burned or wasted in this coun coun- try every year year About tons of flax straw have h have y been burn burned or allowed to togo togo go to caste aste in this country every year year- Not for much longer SpecialIsts Special Special- I fists in the employ ot of the Department ot of Agriculture have shown that It can be used use 1 for making paper and fibre fibre I board demand Already a for 1600 worth of flax straw w has sprung up Once it was vas clear waste 1 I Time was when yellow brass turnings turn turn- Ings were e entirely Now they average 12 cents a pound Old I tinfoil b brings 30 cents and siphon tops a are e worth a a quarter a pound When I Tony gets through with wUn his shoe rags fags he can sell them for 4 cents a pound and you maysee may see them next ext in some fine bond writing p paper per Bones fetch 25 a ton after after everybody's picked em Now hear Arthur D. D Little of the United States ot of Commerce We waste 00 tons of wood wooda a year feet teet of natural gas gasa a day tons ot of flax straw I Ia a year Our coke ovens flame fiame for for miles in Pennsylvania wasting prec prec- lous fous ammonia and exciting no comment com com- I ment the burning of a 1000 i house would draw a mob mob- Some SOllie experts have got the waste down finer than even Mr Little We waste feet of lumber every year In old ld lead pencils by throwing away the stubs Two girls earn forthe for forthe the Government times their salaries sale sal aries just juat by going through the wastepaper waste wastepaper paper bas ets In the Ule Treasury Department Depart Depart- ment at Washington Their prize find was a United States gold bond I Old corncobs are now made Into fuel and railway ties Potash I mighty useful for tor war Is made from the heaps of t seaweed tossed upon our Pacific coast Is' Is Isnow now pressed from used cotton waste I renovated and used over again again- It has been figured out by a a junke junk junk- rr square feet of lumber an thrown away In pencil penen stubs I man exl expert ert that this country loses I a year In cotton wastage alone after atter the last shred o of the fibre has has has' been saved th that t can be And thIs i is how Wrapped In bagging and strapped with hoop Iron last years year's bales averaged pounds apiece Just 56 ot of these ba bales es went to American mills Actually there was sp spun m into cloth and yarn the lent ot of bales because of 15 per r-er cent loss This is divided into two raw classes material waste and manufacturing waste The first counts t the e ba bagging and andIron Iron iron straps included 1 8 in the weight the shrinkage and t three ree I pounds torn off In transit for samples The second includes flying coU cotton n lint cotton da damaged in processing and the quantity that that remains that is not The latter is one of the new savings now Suppose a two Inch length is required Some is not that long This goes for a coarser yarn yam to another mill and the residue there goes to still another for or even coarser products and in in the step down from mill to mill the final residuum lands In a a. a factory making wicking mop yarns c or even lower in the factory which rolls s It up and sticks It together to- to together gether and makes a 98 cent 08 ent suit ot of I clothes or n. n 49 cent 49 ent woollen shirt Actually though there is a 15 p r I cent theoretical w waste te jn in a bale ot of r cotton the actual loss Is reduced to a minimum and only only- 3 per cent goes to I the junk dealer to sort out and sell for real cotton waste to wipe machinery and nd for other similar purposes In aU all the proc processes through which a bale goes but 2 per cent Is irrecoverably lost in flying lint Added to the tho 3 per cent which Is the junkman's share there is a G 5 per cent loss In turing and 10 per cent in raw ma ma- In other words tho manufacturer Joses 30 pounds of weight including In in- the tare on very every bale of cotton cot ton Hero comes the junkman who gives gives' him back ack for the jute and the Iron straps on every bale and 75 cents for the waste or 2255 in all Rags Hark bottles sacks the sacks the I cry of f big business |
