100 years of waste management

2 May 1942

Waste Trade World now incorporates the Iron and Steel Scrap Review.  Top of the ‘Notes of the Week’ column is wartime war over waste…. An outraged MP complained that a local authority that had formed a “very good waste collection scheme that took the form of a fortnightly drive by the council’s vans at an appointed time” was being thwarted by a certain firm arriving just before, leaving the dustmen with nothing or very little. The outraged author retorts that salvage is the waste trade’s job and nobody else’s.  Doesn’t the member know that the war effort could not go on without the trade?  Elsewhere, an advertisement from G Rollinson & Co Ltd asks “sell us your scrap to be made into weapons of victory”.