Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-06-21

COLUMBUS, O. (Special.) - A
campaign for the utilization of garb-
age has been inaugurated by the
United States Food Administration to
reclaim millions Of dollars worth of
material now being wasted and to
urge upon housekeepers the necessity
for keeping garbage (kitchen and
table refuse) in a separate container
from other house refuse.
Figures and statistics issued by the
Food Administration show that in one
ton of garbage there is sufficient
glycerine to make the explosive
charge for fourteen rs miIlimeter
shells, enough fatty acid" to manu-
f9Cture rs pounds of soap, fertilizer
clements to grow eight bushels Of
wheat and a score of other valuable
materials essential in the manufac-
ture of munitions.
1t is also pointed out that "a cities
of over 100000 are not utilizing
garbage and that the combined pop
ulation, which is estimated to be over
100000, is wasting 100000 pounds
of nitro-glycerine and 40,000,000 12-
ounce cakes of soap, besides 10000
tons of tankage which contains fer
tilizer elements sufficient to produce
3,000,0 ,000-bushel wheat crop. The
value of this loss of materials is
estimated at $5,000,000
In 29 cities where there are
garbage utilization plants the figures
show that a combined population of
100000 people are utilizing these
products, to the value of over SILL
100000 annually, and that a large
percentage of this saving is being
directly used by the government in
munition making. Plans are under
way in several cities for the manu-
facture of alcohol on large scale
from garbage and from experiments
it has been shown that the grade Of
alcohol produced equals high grade
grain product.
Don't Burn Garbage
But in these 20 cities, or most of
them, large amounts of garbage are
destroyed by burning or made useless
by being mixed with other wastes.
This means that around 100000
pounds of grease is lost, or sufficient
to produce 100000 pounds of nitro
glycerine, which would furnish the
powder charge of about 100000
shells of the famous French "seventy-
fives." In addition there is a loss of
fatty acids sufficient to manufacture
25,000,000 12-ounce cakes of soap.
If, N these 20 cities the garbage
was "kept clean" or free from bottles,
tin cans, crockery and other foreign
matter, the saving to the government
would be many million dollars more.
The responsibility devolves upon the
shoulders Of the housewife, who is
urged to see that nothing but garbage
goes into the garbage pail. Other
house refuse has value, but its value
is lost and the value of the garbage
is lost if refuse and garbage are
mixed.
The same is true about garbage
that is to be used as hog feed. The
Food Administration is also urging
that table and kitchen refuse be fed
to hogs and is driving home to the
housekeeper the fact that one ton of
garbage will produce 100 pounds of
good, firm, first quality pork.
Figures from 800 cities of over
10000 population, which are disposing
of their garbage as hog feed, are
daily demonstrating this fact. The
combined population of these cities is
more than 100000 and the estimated
yield of pork should be 1O0,OO0,OOO
pounds. But because of poor separa-
ton, inedible materials and losses, the
amount of garbage-fed pork that is
actually marketed each year is only
50,000,000 pounds, which has a value
of over $4,000, 900,