CAPE ARGUS - 1951, November 19
More paper
than ever was being salvaged in the Cape Peninsula in 1951, in spite of the
fact that the vast majority of the public seemed to have forgotten all about
the paper-saving campaign.
An official
of the City Council’s Cleansing Department said that housewives did not
contribute to this improved salvage figures, as most of them mixed their wet
waste with paper and bundled it all indiscriminately into their garbage cans.
The improvement
was due to the better methods of salvage being used by the authorities
themselves. The Cleansing Department had 5 new motor vehicles in service and
ordered another 7 vehicles to be delivered within the next 6 weeks. Each
vehicle had a separate compartment for waste paper. The ordinary refuse
vehicles could not be used for special space for paper, as paper, when tightly
packed, was heavier than the other garbage, and made the vehicles lean over at
a dangerous angle.
The officer
said that they were collecting up to about 6 000 pounds of paper daily, or
between 15 and 20 tons a week. It could be much more if the public would only
be more co-operative.
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