In the national effort 0 conserve resources 10 win the war, none seems more impressive in Britain than the salvage schemes on the enorm~ og, [OUs waste Which the country permitted during the piping times of peace. Many munietpalities before the war had salvage plants which funetioned somewhat casually, but the demands of war have converted this effort into an industry of great potentialities, Particularly in reverd (0 paper is this evident, During the last war, the reseuiing and conversion of rags and waste paper Fenched enormous proportions, but in the present war, to meet the increased emergency, it Will undoubtedly: be even greater. Fér instance, was only recently remarked that while Bri. fain was at war it was still importing waste Paper thus, in a sense, wasting ship room which could well' be utilized' for more valuable commodities, although there is a big wastage of paper in the country. Like all systems of econoies, it is not easy to balance every fact one of the strangest sights was when of Members of Parliament visited the largest Paper board mill in the British Empire and found barges unloading huge quantities of old newspapers from Sweden and Germany
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