Materials Wanted
Long before recycling became a familiar part of everyday life, the English and Continental Company invited Limerick residents to recognise the commercial value hidden in unwanted materials. Operating from 63 and 64 Mungret Street in 1900, the firm advertised for discarded goods that could be purchased, sorted and returned to productive use. Its premises stood within a busy commercial district close to the city’s markets, workshops and riverside trade. The advertisement reveals an organised local business in recovered materials, connecting household remnants and industrial offcuts with merchants prepared to sell them into wider manufacturing and export networks.
