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THOSE who remember earlier days, when fresh uses were often found for worn-out machines and scrap of all kinds, inevitably look with some distress on the affluent society's habit of throwing away household goods that are no more than past their first youth.
As was pointed out by Mr. K. Harvey, deputy general manager of the Birmingham salvage department, in a talk to the Institute of Public Cleansing, the efficient performance of a refuse disposal system is governed by the materials it has to handle and one of the current problems is that of oversize refuse. Birmingham 'organizes free collections of bulky items that come under the domestic refuse heading and it surprised many of us to learn that since 1965 over 40,000 such collections have been carried out there. They have brought in furniture of all sorts, mattresses, carpets, television and radio sets, bicycles and kitchen equipment, to say nothing of such machinery as spin-dryers, washers, and refrigerators.