DEHYDRATION BY-PRODUCTS
GARDEN FERTILISER PLANNED. "One of the Internal Marketing Division's three new dehydration factories is already in operation and the second will start working within a few days," announced the Hon. B. Roberts, Minister of Agriculture aud Marketing, yesterday. "The disposal of the waste products at these plants has presented a major problem. However, preparations are well advanced for turning these peelings and strippings into organic manure. It will be realised that all the removal of outer leaves and cores, which is done in the case of fresh vegetables upon the kitchen bench, must take place before dehydration begins. Faced with the costly cartage and burying of an immense quantity of such 'waste' products every day of operation, the Internal Marketing Division is arranging instead to have this material scientifically composted at the factory. The system will probably be extended also to the major packing sheds where vegetables are got ready for export to the Pacific. Such vegetables have to be in perfect condition, with no soft or damaged parts, if they are to make their long and varied tropical journey without deterioration, and accordingly trimming has to be extremely drastic." "Turning waste vegetable products into organic fertiliser is not a new project," continued the Minister. "It has been advocated by many scientilic authorities as the cheapest method in the long run for disposing of city sewage. In New South Wales an experimental farm has perfected a i method which the Sydney medical health officer believes will rapidly supercede incineration. In Birmingham. and in several municipalities on the Continent, particularly in Russia, city garbage is thus being turned to profit. Fortunately the plant needed to deal with vegetable trimmings is not complicated, and, quite apart from the sale which the product is expected to have among gardeners, it will eventually pay for itself by reducing cartage and other expenses."
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Hutt News, Volume 18, Issue 1, 7 June 1944, Page 5
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