100 years of waste management

4 May 1912

The Waste Trade World is launched as the only journal of its type “in the British Empire”, circulated among merchants, dealers and buyers of scrap iron and metals, metallic residues, glass cullet, rags, wool, paper stock, waste rubber, cotton, wool and jute, scrap leather, glue stock, bones, horns and hoofs, skins, hair, feathers, and sacks. The magazine is published every Saturday at an annual subscription cost of 6s, or 8s for foreign and colonial readers. It boasts of being an unrivalled advertising medium for these trades.