Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — TURNING SEWAGE INTO ASSET [ARTICLE]

TURNING SEWAGE INTO ASSET

British City Shows How Profit Can Be Made by Scientific Handling of Waste Effluent Through installation of modem sewerage and garbage disposal systems many cities of this country are securing valuable by-products from waste, but our municipalities could probably emulate to advantage the method adopted by an English city in creating an asset out of a waste effluent difficult of disposal, says the Manufacturers’ Record. According to a statement in commerce reports by the United States consul at Bradford, England, that city recovers the grease in the sewage coming from many wool-wash-ing and scouring establishments located there and turns it into a profitable by-product. This grease by-product is said to be of value in the leather-dressing trade anjJ to some extent in branches of the textile industry. The saTes of the recovered grease by the sewage works of the city of Bradford were reported to amount to $389,320 in 1916 at the present high price of $122 a ton, and it is estimated that for this year over $340,000 will be realized from this source, in addition to nearly $25,000 derived from the sale of manure or fertilizer made from the sludge, left after the extraction of the grease. Because of the development of this by-product it is thought the Bradford sewage work will be selfsupporting In 1917.