CITY OF NO REFUSE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3334, 16 August 1926, Page 2

CITY OF NO REFUSE.

Dead dogs and cats are among the valuable assets ot Bradford Municipality, which has reduced the disposal' of re use to a, science. Instead of destroying it at a cost of thousands of pounds, it converts it into commodities to be sold at a profit, saving the ratepayers £70,000 a year. Condemned meat and dead animals arc used to make soap and fertilisers. Fat from incinerated dogs’is used to cure rheumatism. Clinkers from the incinerators arc converted into grit 1 for greasy tram-lines, and nrto concrete paving stones.

Old boots are transformed into a substance for casting metals, which is extensively used on the railways, whilesteam is raised to run machinery by burning dustbin refuse, such as rotten trait and vegetables, thus eliminating coal.

.Broken pots and glass dug from the ground are sold for fertilisers. Road refuse fills up the disused quarries, and also reclaims laud, enabling the creation oi parks and fields, on which sufficient bay is grown to feed the corporation’s horses.