The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-10
Tons or Old Tin Cans
 To ProOide War Needs
Government Plans Big Expansion Program to Obtain Tin, Steel, Scrap for War
 Industries = Estimates Given

lation figures, availability of empty freight car movements, and effec- tiveness of local collection efforts.
 When completed, the plans will be equipped to serve the entire country, so that cans may now be profitably collected in every part of the country. Despite added costs of transporting cans to detinning plants from distant cities and of shipping scrap steel to steel. pro- ducers, the need for the metal is so urgent that the handicap of trans portation is being solved.
 Shedding Plants
 When these new plants start oper- ating, when the shredding plants are feeding cans into the detinning plants, when cans are being col lected throughout the country - then we will be detinning somewhat over 50 per cent of the cans manu- factured. Considerably more than 50 per cent could be detinned if detinners operate 24 hours a day The first year of full operation of new facilities we will get 5000 tons VI VAA41 O4AC 1CNOA1A yCdL ckDOuU OI tOV tons, and the third years about 2,500 tons. The decrease is the result of reducing the amount of tin in each can. Recovery of steel scrap will not decrease in this manner. As the amount of tin in each can is re- duced by up to 70 per cent under the conservation program, there is less tin to recover The amount Of steel remains the same.
 One point of great importance is the urgency of collecting cans i'm mediately. Beginning with the 1943 food pack, the amount of tin in cans will be substantially reduced, hence less tin can be recovered. One can collected this year is worth two next year. Immediate and con- tinued action by citizens everywhere must be exercised if we are not to lose the valuable tin now on cans Used cans cannot be stored dirty. But they can be stored if prepared
 Can collection is going full steam ahead. Salvage committees are at work everywhere, and now the bot tiers of the country are lending their aid in gathering cans.
 Where shall cans be taken by housewives? Wherever the local sal wage committee directs. Conditions vary in each community. Distance from shredding or detinning plants, method of local collection, and transportation facilities all affect the local situation.
 don0arN11c fa1loaxy hos hoav, heard from time to time which is doing great damage to can collec- tion. This is that only in cities where detinning plants are situated should cans be collected, that in other cities it is useless to collect cans. This is incorrect.
 All ans can be used, from what ever source they come. In smaller communities it may be necessary to accumulate cans for 8 period to make up freight car, or arrange mentS may be made to turn them over to bottler'S trucks.
 Rubber and gasoline shortages seriously interfere with can collec- tion 50 that stocks may have to bc accumulated for Gilort periods unit collection facilities can be arranged
 Every Pound Needed
 Every pound of tin and steel re- covered from old cans is just so much gravy-gravy the Army and Navy need badly. Every pound of cans not collected and detinned is sheer waste. In few other war en- terprisss is there such opportunity | for universal cooperation as in old ! can collection. Housewives cna save and prepare ca.,e. municipal au- i 'hogit:es can arrange for colletiol |