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I Every aa-, . the 1100 bed Extraction of energy from -viana Hospital in Granon rubbish is remarkably produces at least eight simple. First tne material is cubic yards of rubbisa. Wet, shredded. Then it’s compacted <//* / iV F dry, inorganic and in a machine which extrudes ‘ j / pathological waste. small, solid fuel peilets. k The asposa: oroblems are Mixed with coal in the /fl r a- engineer’s nightmare. Hospital's boilers, they cou’d / \ By iaw, tne pathological stretch the energy supply - kl ■ ’ waste must be destroyed on providing hot water for /Yv site. At Grafton Ts burned in kitchens, laundries, wards ar nc.ne r ator designed a-d and laboratories. Already it’s (-JrjkmSL built years before been proved that a j _X JL envror,mental pollut on commercial boiler designed F awareness fathered tne for coal can run effectively T~r. C ean A ' Act on 100 per cent rubbish fuel. hO-' M F. j Tr.e rest of tre rubbish is Unlike coal, the base / / , J compacted and carted off to material tor this apparently :: a tip, a practice disapproved limitless energy source has ’ j-,I try some acrmistrators. For an attractive fixed price. Free FM-fXM'/ *7 T" IL~JiOi ’ e safety of puD.ic nea " Tne omy cost is shredding the F mey sa. : s undesirable to rubbish and pelletising it. /. ort a",' form of hospita l So fuel pellets might turn Fj, Ti ; J? waste through metropolitan. out to be just what the doctoi FT*l areas ordered. A real snot-in-the-arm Relief is imminent. for a nation trying to conserve 4 . F*T Envirc cs Trust, a precious fossil lues ... or for gK>Ln£k. ‘T gro-p r.- ed mree >ears a nosoital struggling to urn t ago wftn tne ooect o‘ operating costs / .Wr L A'-.Jl* recyc .ng a kmos ot waste In Auckland, projected * T I 3; ■ as ter mu area a remeoy savmgs could buy a new ; hooeiu.. /a pe r manent Cure mcmerator for the Grafton 7 V-~-]AwJwt lor r e eng, ee r s discomtort. Hospital s pathological waste. f .3 mZk kl) Last year, through its ending the blacksmoke problem, sponsorship prog'amme, To help Environmental /i W 7** ' Moo ■' 0:1 New Zealand Ethics Trust continue its ijf.'-’FTST— Limited dispensed a valuable work, Mobil has FJ-—Lx substantial cash grant te the injected a booster to the [ ' 1 1 I tl***?’ ■ rust. Enougn to finance a finances. Enough to show iTM ; ' : T-'-'i* "orougn programme of trias our confidence in the future M” 7* — and experimentation. O f rppbish pellets - a ne Trus: s scientists potential alternative to fJ ' i t iJ~7. deciare that virtually all t r e precious fossil fueis. \ F J •vet. ary a r d inorganic -** \ rubbish coed be burnt By For further information write to: '■ .U „.<* compos mon. hospital waste ‘Hospital Rubbish Pellets , Iji ‘ r—>%J ; I _L ) g- caiorif.c vaiue In Pub uc Affairs Department, f — _~T3F > x ' usts very not Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited, /—1 ' I •’■' ?-■ ’ r P.O. Box 2497,WELLINGTON. -• M©bil m a s sei 1
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