IT’S A CRIME to waste so much as a scrap of paper (Aug, 1945)
This, of course, took up a small corner of a page in the middle of a dozen page advertising section.
IT’S A CRIME to waste so much as a scrap of paper. Ten pounds of paper will make ten shell containers; ten pounds will make twenty blood plasma (have you given blood yet?) containers. Ten pounds of waste paper will furnish material for containers to hold 540 fifty-caliber tracer bullets. It’s important; turn in your waste paper today!
I’m going to print this out and put it over the recycling bin at work!
Give it to both the environmentalists and the anti-war people and have them fight it out.
I find it funny how people think recycling is something relatively new.
@ Mick Canick – It’s just new in our modern disposable society, in the old days recycling was just “why should I throw it out when I can repair/remake/reuse it?”
True, everything is disposable now. Gone are the days when a soldering gun and a screw driver fixed almost anything/