CITY GARBAGE.

Northern Advocate, 4 September 1919, Page 1

CITY GARBAGE.

How to deal with city garbage has always been a municipal problem (states the Melbourne "Age"), and whereas in some cases refuse destructors have proved satisfactory, they are expensive to run, and can only be used where there is enough garbage to keep a large plant going. When there is no destructor, there is the tip evil, which nobody wants. It is estimated that from an up-to-date destructor about 50 per cent, of the cost of running can be recovered by utilising the heat of combustion to generate power, and by selling the clinker, but this still leaves the other 50 per cent, cost to be met. An inventor has recently submitted a system, which he has patented throughout the world, to the Science and Industry Bureau for destroying refuse in such a way as to make the process profitable. The bureau has not yet gone into details, but the idea has its points. The process is apparently a species of destructive distillation, in which all the oils, tar, and gases and hydro-carbons are recovered, and the residue put to some commercial use. The inventor claims that the beauty of his patent is that small plants are just as good as large, so that the very smallest municipality could instal pne and make it pay, It is understood that teh inventor is prepared to run that the inventor is prepared to run plies of garbage,