Irlam Refuse 1952. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Irlam Refuse 1952. / Irlam,Cadishead,Rixton with Glazebrook old photos
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| 説明 | Cadishead and Irlam Guardian, February 1952.When you open that tin of fruit you have been saving for a special occasion and automatically throw the empty can into the dustbin do you stop to think of what happens to it after it leaves your backyard?Do you realise the importance of your newspaper or magazine after you have read it and it has found its way into the salvage bag... those old bottles and rags hiding in cellar and attic for years, you have discovered and thrown out?More importantly, can you imagine the effect it has on your district rate?To the housewife in the home, the man in the office or works, the boy or girl at school, the fact that thousands upon thousands of waste papers, rags, bottles and tins are being collected every week from almost every home throughout the country is probably of no more importance than is a bee hive to a stamp collector: and yet the result of these salvage collections indirectly affects every member of the community.So this is your story - a story of what happens to salvage and refuse after the cleansing department has collected your sacks and emptied your dustbins and how it affects your district rate.Service cost.Examine, for a start, some figures of cleansing costs for Irlam and Cadishead from 1942 to the presnt year (1952).In 1942-43 the income from salvage collected in the district was £720, a saving equal to a 2d. rate. This figure decreased steadily until 1945-46, when the income was only £397 or equal to a little more than a 1d. rate.Cleansing costs in 1947-48 were £6,451, but the income from salvage realised £549. Consequently, the actual cost of the service was reduced to £5,902, thereby saving a 1 and half penny rate rise in the district for that year.Wage increases, costs of materials and general inflation in prices has since sent the cost of service soaring into the £9,000 mark, which is the estimated expenditure figure for 1951-52.The importance of the renewed drive for more salvage can be realised when these figures are studied. For though the cost of the service has risen £3,000 since 1947 - equal to almost 9d. rate increase - the income from salvage for 1951-52 is estimated to be £3,437, so reducing the actual cost from £9,020 to £5,583 and saving the district a temporary rate increase of 10d. Through your efforts to save more salvage the cost of the service is lower than in 1947.Regular collection.A "Guardian" reporter, who began investigations into the subject at the Public Health Department, was told by Mr. L. Hall, sanitary inspector and cleansing superintendent, that the salvage drive was intensified in 1948."Since then we have trebled the weight of salvage," he said. In 1948-49 the cleansing department became the responsibility of the Public Health Department. Before then there was no regular collection of salvage.Two wagons were used and then began a fornightly round up. By the end of 1950 the weight of salvage collected had been doubled.A new vehicle and trailer was obtained and its effect was a 20 percent increase, plus a weekly collection. " I think we have almost reached saturation point," Mr. Hall told the "Guardian," "We are collecting 15 tons a month now and one ton a month per 1,000 population is considered a good figure."Practically the whole of the salvage is collected from houses and shops and almost 1,000 sacks have been distributed throughout the district.Fourteen men are employed, 12 on collection and two on disposal. "We have thought of running a competition between Irlam and Cadishead," Mr. Hall remarked. "If they could let us have more salvage it would certainly bring down the rates."From the Health Department the reporter was taken on a journey in one of the wagons used for refuse collection and went first to the tip at Lords Street, Cadishead.Here two men were busily engaged sorting out the paper, rags, bottles and tins from the ordinary refuse.One of the men, Mr. J. Lomax, said: "If housewives would keep the salvage separate from the ordinary refuse it would save a lot of trouble, time and money. They don't seem to realise it's their money which is paying for all this."Sacks of salvage which had already been separated were waiting to be taken to the salvage depot at Fairhills Road, Irlam.Mr. J. Balantine was the reporter's guide at the depot, where scores of bales of all kinds of salvage, waiting to be dispatched to the mills for repulping, filled a large barn-like erection.A trailer was brought in and the contents, consisting of anything from old socks to twopenny "bloods," emptied out. Each kind of salvage - newspapera and magazines, bits and pieces of food cartons (known as common paper), rags, tins and bottles o was separated and the paper baled in machines worked by hand. The jars are counted into dozens and put into boxes.Because of shortage of labour, most of the baling is done at night, and from the depot the newspapers and magazines are dispatched to a Warrinton mill. The rags are baled separately and sent to Darwin and the bottles and jars transported to a Manchester firm.Incidentally, if you have any confidential papers which you want to destroy, you are asked not to burn them. On request they will be sealed in a box and sent to the repulping mill unopened.Well, Mrs Jones, got any rags, bottles...?ImageAn Irlam refuse wagon makes its weekly call at every home, a familiar scene to every housewife in the district.The second stage in the salvage story. Here Council employees are seen sorting the salvage from the ordinary refuse at the tip in Cadishead. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-05-05 18:58:22 |
| 撮影者 | Irlam,Cadishead,Rixton with Glazebrook old photos |
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