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Excerpt from Notes on British Refuse Destructors: With an Introductory Comparison of British Refuse Destructors and American Garbage Furnaces
In the United States most of the larger cities which dispose of their refuse by any means but dumping on land or in water, contract with pri vate companies for treating the garbage in re duction works. The alternative is cremation, which at one time or another has been practiced in a hundred cities and towns. Wherever in this country either furnaces or re duction works are employed, with one or two possible exceptions in the case of furnaces, the ashes are excluded from the garbage and are got rid of separately. In the United States fuel is practically always bought and _used to burn garbage; in Great Britain it appears that purchased fuel was rarely used to aid in the combustion of the mixed refuse in the early destructors, and is never used in the modern instal lations. Many an American garbage furnace has been shut down for months at a time or finally abandoned because of the alleged excessive cost of fuel. British destructors have practically al ways supplied enough heat from the self-burned refuse to meet all the demands for works pur poses and to-day they are supplying many hun dreds of horsepower for generating electricity and for pumping sewage and water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
