(From the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



San Franc i sco Office ) 



P-179 



STATES CONDUCTS 

 WOOD -WASTE EXCHANGE 



Llcnufacturers Decrease Costs and Increast v rofits by 

 Utilizing Tach Other's Scrap Material 



Washington : The Irtest business -aid service instituted 



by the Government is a wood-waste exchange. It enables lum- 

 bermen and manufacturers in the various wood-using industries 

 to utilize each other 'L waste to mutual advantage, aiming to 

 effect a large saving in forest material as well as in money. 



The Tvood-v-aste exchange is being conducted by the 

 forest service o:C the department of agriculture, llore than 

 forty manufacturers of wooden articles have already asked to 

 be listed as having certain kinds of waste wood for sale, or 

 as desiring to obtr.in their raw material in the rough or in 

 semi-finished form from mill or factory waste. 



Twice p, month the exchange sends out a circular 

 hefded "Opportunities to Buy Waste", containing the n?mes 

 and addresses of factories having waste wood for sale, with 

 exact information as to species, sizes, forms snd Quantities. 

 Similarly, another circular headed "Opportunities to Sell 

 Faste" gives the specific requirements of wood-using plnnts 

 which desire to buy waste material. 



One of the first waste problems solved has been that 



