A man is building a house on a disused railway line.
Discarded car tyres are given new treads so they can be reused.
Clothes, paper and metal rubbish sorted and packaged.
Man demonstrates new shoes made out of bits of old car tyre.
Item showing North country depot that repairs and retreads old tyres.
Men in a factory turn scrap iron into munitions.
Paper being recycled into cardboard at...
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A woman makes stockings out of old hat netting.
Germans recycle rubber tyres into shoe soles.
Short trailer film encouraging people to give back their medicine bottles to the NHS.
A teashop has been built entirely from cement salvaged from a ship.
Wartime beachcombers find all sorts of things from cotton wool to a...
The run of the cable tram comes to an end as new buses...
Actress Wilma...
Footage of de-rusting machine and process at factory in London.
Salvage / recycling materials for war use.
Early recycling - a mother makes a child's dress from a small section of gingham.
Craft demonstrating - how to turn worn out dancing shoes into cosy...
Processes involved in making large bells for churches or similar.
A woman makes belts and bracelets from the...
An old...
Singer Colin Cunningham demonstrates his canoe - made out of household objects.
Ramsgate donkey man carves decorative objects out of chalk he collects at the...
Cinema projectionist...
The Australian army saves £30,000 a year by salvaging and...
A. G. Grubert (?) updates fur coats and replaces worn sections.
The Vickers Seerdrum plant turns rubbish into a pulverised peat like...
A cobbler converting old shoes to new styles in Glasgow, Scotland.
Two women model home-made versions of the latest 'dog collars' and chokers.
Debris being dumped on sight near Oxford to be recycled.
Great hats on show in London.
People collect scrap metal for munition in 1940.
A short trailer film encouraging people to save paper - Terry Thomas stars.
A short trailer film encouraging people to save waste paper.
German newsreel item: German army helmets are recycled into...
Explaining what should be thrown away as kitchen waste for pigs.
An item about a man who has...
A look at coins in British Museum with quirky animations about money and...
Members of the West London Model Power Boat Club race their crafts on a lake.
Model boats and model trains - Sydney, Australia.
Children at a Viennese kindergarten, cars on...
Mr...
Women tends to flowers growing in hanging...
Old fisherman makes hat for young lady from rope...
Footage of designer Miss Ashfield making...
Anne Edwards gives advice on how to make your own slippers and save clothing coupons.
Schoolboys from New South Wales go round collecting salvage for the war effort. Australia.
Item showing women how to recycle evening...
The Sykes family combat petrol rationing - they ride...
Female workers salvage old cars at Crystal Palace, London.