RICHES IN REFUSE
.Complaints that have reached tho Ministry of Health regarding the present system of disposal of London’s refuse have led that body to consider improved methods. An official of tho Ministry told a “Daily Mail” reporter that tho complaints couccrn the huge dumps of refuse in use near London. The Ministry is hoping to find a healthier and more economic way of disposing of tho rubbish. One scliemo that has been suggested recommends a huge central destructor and plants capable of making light and power and road and building material from refuse that is at present carted away at great expense, aud ! eft as n nuisance in public dumps. Many provincial cities make use of domestic and industrial waste. Leicester in particular having made fcho pavement slabs for its streets from ‘‘clinker” and other waste for many years.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12616, 29 November 1926, Page 2
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140RICHES IN REFUSE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12616, 29 November 1926, Page 2
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