PROFIT FROM SEWAGE.
New machinery •which, has cost iEfiO.OOI) for extracting marketable produce from the city's sewage -will be started at Bradford in a few (lays (says "Public Opinion" of May 31). Last, year the corporation made a- profit of >£30,000 from grease recovered from the sewage,-and.it is anticipated that at the new works at Esholt the annnal profit will be raised to ,£50,000. The total sales of these products' up to last year reached .£IOO,OOO. A market has also been found for the pressed cake which'remains after'the grease- has been extracted, and large quantities of this 'have been exported to be used as fertilisers in France, South America, and other foreign countries. The cake has ; ' eyfin been in demand as fuel.during .the coal strike, and has been used as such in the local factories. Bradford is probably the only city in the kingdom which .derives revenue from ' this scarce. The present plant is the result of ten years' er.peri■ments by the city sewage engineer,' Mr. Garfield. He first installed two presses, which:'yielded in grease Bales .£222. At present! 'eixty-four presses' aie at work at the Frizinghall Sewage Works; When the new works at Esholt are complete; over 100 presses will bo working.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1491, 13 July 1912, Page 7
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203PROFIT FROM SEWAGE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1491, 13 July 1912, Page 7
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