VALUABLE RUBBISH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 October 1937, Page 9

VALUABLE RUBBISH

CONVERTIBLE INTO FERTILISER (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 23rd September. Municipal authorities who pride themselves on the use they make of refuse for the generation of steam and electrical power may have to revise their views on economy in the light of experiments which have been carried out by the Kensington Borough Council. For the last six months the countents of Kensington dustbins have been taken to a specially constructed experimental factory, where the rubbish undergoes a process of breaking clown, which transforms it into a kind of compost which is rich in nitrogens and humus essential to fertility of the soil. More than half of the contents of household dustbins is waste vegetable matter and readily convertible into fertiliser. After it has been separated from the residue of indestructible matter, it is treated with chemicals and subjected to a process of oxygenation Which ic-sults in bringing it down to a grey and almost odourless mass, which can readily be pulverised for application to ihe land.