MONEY FROM RUBBISH
Britain’s Yearly Loss About £3,500.000 is thrown away every year in Britain in the form of rubbish. But new methods of reducing the wastage are being discovered almost every day. The Royal Borough of Kensington will shortly instill plant, the first of its kind in Great Britain, which will produce from , ordinary household refuse a most valuable fertiliser. Mr R. C. D. Jenkins, chairman of the committee responsible, told a “Sunday Express” representative:— “We shall produce every year 20,000 tons of valuable fertiliser much cheaper than chemical products. “And we shall lie saving our ratepayers at least £5,000 a year.” In the 18,000,000 tons of refuse collected every year are 00,000 tons of scrap metal, 1.000,000 tons of paper and vast quantities of rags, cinders, bones, glass, valuable ash, and soap. London's rubbish totals about 1,200,000 tons a year. Its market value is probably £250,000. but London boroughs are behind in tlieir “by-pro-duct” operations.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 106, 29 January 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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157MONEY FROM RUBBISH Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 106, 29 January 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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