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Newspaper
Pennsylvania Clearfield Progress
Location
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 2009
Page
9
The article traces historical recycling practices from handcraft and reused materials to modern systems. It notes metal melting, brick reuse, fabric repurposing, and paper recycling in earlier eras and highlights a major government campaign during World War II urging salvage of metal, paper, rubber.
During World War II the U S government urged citizens to recycle metal to aid the war. Signs called for collecting scrap metal including pots pans irons and birdcages. Children pulled wagons door to door to gather metal, easing postwar shortages and sustaining recycling years later.
In the 1960s awareness grew that Earth's resources were finite. By the 1970s energy costs and gasoline shortages spurred attention to fuel use and waste. landfills filled and recycling emerged as essential. The US recycled 6 percent in 1960, about 33 percent today, from 254 million tons of garbage with roughly 85 million tons recycled.
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