IV. The Regularity of Salvage Collection

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IV. THE REGULARITY OF SALVAGE COLLECTION

This section shows how many sorts of salvage are collected by housewives, and how regularly.

The average number of sorts collected

About half the housewives who collect salvage collected two to three sorts; about a third collected more than three sorts; one-tenth collected one sort, and the rest did not collect anything.

Collects nothing Collects one sort Collects 2-3 sorts Collects more than 3 sorts

Numbers: 225 353 1812 1153

Local differences

There are very sharp local differences:-

Collects nothing Collects one sort Collects 2-3 sorts Collects more than 3 sorts

Numbers: 2 39 7 22 116 41 46 18

KEY: Best town Worst town

(Figures for each individual place are given in Appendix 3)

Social group differences

This table shows that in the higher income groups (A and B) a higher proportion than in the lower income groups (C and D) collects more than three types of salvage. In the section on paper salvage an attempt is made to analyse the reasons for the difference between social groups.

	A and B		C and D
		%		%
Nothing collected	30	3.9	180	7.8
1 sort collected	55	7.2	265	11.5
2-3 sorts collected	361	47.3	1210	52.3
More than 3 sorts collected	318	41.6	658	28.4

No important age differences were found.

Salvage of the different commodities

Housewives' responses were analysed according to whether they collected salvage “regularly”, “sometimes” or “never”.

Paper, food waste and metal are collected regularly by about three-quarters of the housewives in the sample, bones by less than half, rags by not quite one-tenth, and rubber by very few indeed.

Those collecting regularly, sometimes and never

Paper			Metal				Bones			Food			Rags			Rubber
78.7	7.0	14.3		71.7	12.2	16.1	42.0	11.4	45.6	71.5	4.2	24.3	9.5	13.3	77.2	3.2	8.2	83.6
						Regularly						Sometimes						Never

Collects:	Regularly		Sometimes		Never
		%		%		%
Paper	2423	78.7	215	7.0	441	14.3
Food waste	2202	71.5	128	4.2	749	24.3
Metal	2208	71.7	376	12.2	495	16.1
Bones	1322	42.0	352	11.4	1405	45.6
Rags	293	9.5	409	13.3	2377	77.2
Rubber	99	3.2	253	8.2	2727	88.6

In the following sections the situation for the different commodities is examined.

The analysis made of paper salvage supports conclusions which have a general application to all sections.

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