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 th# wastage are being discovered almost every day. The Royal Borough of Kensington will shortly install 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 be saving our ratepayers at least £5,000 a year.” In the 18,000,000 tons of refuse collected every year are 60,000 tons of scrap metal, 1,600,000 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 their “ by-product • operations. f ■
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Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 18
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158MONEY FROM RUBBISH Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 18
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