BRICKS OUT OF RUBBISH.
A notable example of conservation is to be found iri the scheme just announced by the Paris' Municipal Council for the use of the city's rubbish, which is gathered daily in trucks from apartments and buildings. Henceforth this will be heated to a temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit, and then chemically treated until it forms a pulp to be mixed with chalk found in abundance near the city. Special mills have. been constructed to transform the garbage pulp into bricks for tho reconstruction of homes and streets in tho devastated regions. Experiments have .proved that such bricks have greater wearing qualities than thoso of ordinary red clay, and can. be manufactured at one-tenth the cost.-, The heating process also . releases electricity' used in the "operating of the .garbage destroyers,'with a balance loft for lighting the streets of ono of the city's largest suburbs.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9392, 14 December 1920, Page 7
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147BRICKS OUT OF RUBBISH. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9392, 14 December 1920, Page 7
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