100 years of waste management

6 May 1922

The top on the news agenda was a campaign by the second-hand bottle trade urging government to impose restrictions on the import of bottles. The Association of Glass Bottle Manufacturers of Great Britain and Ireland complained that bottles from Holland were undercutting British bottles, in breach of the Safeguarding of Industries Act 1921. Other stories include plans to vary minimum pay rates for some workers and to cancel the guaranteed time-rates for female piece workers.