Taking the Ticket for a Ride
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IF everyone will co-operate in saving paper in its multitudinous forms (except grease paper, which can be used for lighting the fire), the shortage of pulp will be greatly reduced and material will be available for many vital war purposes. London Transport is putting its house in order and doing its best to save a good proportion of the 7,000,000 tickets a day, r which it issues.
It has placed a contract with a salvage ,concern to treat the waste material swept from the floois of buses, trolleybuses and trams. . This is screened to eliminate hairpins, match sticks, cigarette ends, etc.: at the same time much of this cleansing will be unnecessary if passengers will put their tickets into the receptacle which will soon be available on every bus. In fact, in future, all these tickets will be taken for a ride and "bumped off" into the pulping machine.
Purchases of paper in any form should be reduced to the 'minimum. Business houses and private individuals could save many tons by utilizing. over and over again any envelopes which they receive.
We are sure that many of our readers treasure and hoard their old copies of " The Commercial Motor," and, poisibly, other journals. We suggest that if only particular pages be required, these should be extracted and, pinned together. Do not use cardboard or paper files, because they should go the way of all paper, which includes the remaining pages and covers of the journals in question.
Remember that in conserving paper you are saving your own pockets, for councils are paid for what they save, and any balance after the deduction of expenses goes towards the relief of rates.
Some people living in large blocks of fiats have coTplairied that paper they have placed rEost carefully aside is all lumped into the common dustbin. Municipal salvage officers should instruct their collectors to note and report such incidents. Any complaints sent to us marked "Waste Paper" will be forwarded to the proper quarter.