Waste reclamation saves the British economy £250 million a year, but too much potentially valuable material is still condemned to the rubbish tip. Preston Witts, in the second of a two‐part pollution feature, looks at some of the latest developments to plug this drain on resources—particularly in liquid and chemical waste

Abstract

Scrap merchants, to quote the words of one of their leading spokesmen, ‘have been making money for a long time’. But in the fashionable era of the environmentalist, the work of these men—who epitomise the muck‐and‐money adage—has taken on a dimension that lifts it above the lowly status to which it was condemned in the past.

Citation

(1972), "Waste reclamation saves the British economy £250 million a year, but too much potentially valuable material is still condemned to the rubbish tip. Preston Witts, in the second of a two‐part pollution feature, looks at some of the latest developments to plug this drain on resources—particularly in liquid and chemical waste", Industrial Management, Vol. 72 No. 10, pp. 43-57. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb056243