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Uses for Waste Wood in Germany

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 33.

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Uses for Waste Wood in Germany

— In Germany, says the Scientific American, wood is too expensive to be burned, and it is made into artificial silk worth two dollars a pound, and bristles worth four dollars a pound; into paper, yarn, twine, carpet, canvas, and cloth. From sawdust parquet flooring is made. The materials for this may be bought by the pound and then mixed, so that the householder can lay his own hardwood floors according to his individual taste and ingenuity.