# Millions from Waste

Author: Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880-1924

Genre: Category: Environmental Issues

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67837

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Millions+from+Waste+Talbot&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Extravagance is the inevitable corollary to cheap living. The expression “living” is used in its very broadest sense, and is by no means confined to the mere consumption of foodstuffs. If living be cheap the thousand and one attributes complementary thereto, from wearing apparel to creature comforts for the home and from raw materials to finished goods, must necessarily rule low in price. Under such conditions the very fact that it is cheaper, as well as easier and simpler, to incur a further capital charge, rather than to endeavour to induce additional service from what is already in hand, though possibly damaged slightly, prompts waste, in precisely the same way as it is more expedient...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/17/index.md)
- [mill. On this basis a grinding mill, working to full capacity through](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/millions-from-waste-67837/chapters/9/index.md)