Challenge of the Sack

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Challenge of the Sack

From the collection of

North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University

Established in 1977, the North West Film Archive preserves moving images made in or about the North West of England for the education and enjoyment of the region’s people. Part of Manchester Metropolitan University Library’s Cultural Collections, and based within Manchester Central Library’s Archives+ partnership, we are a specialist resource dedicated to saving and growing our region’s rich filmed history.

Challenge of the Sack

North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University
Ellesmere Port
1962
Sound
13m

A new way to deal with a load of old rubbish - dumping the dustbins in Ellesmere Port.

In this promotional film for Bowater Packaging Ltd, the company launches a pilot scheme trialling the use of specially designed paper sacks for household rubbish. A new estate in the Cheshire town of Ellesmere Port provides the perfect testing ground, and at the end of the study, householders and dustmen alike seem satisfied, voicing favourable opinions on this new form of rubbish collection.

Record of a six-month's pilot scheme by the Cheshire borough of Ellesmere Port to assess what would be the effects of replacing conventional dustbins with Bowater multi-wall paper refuse sacks.

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