The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-06-20

COLUMBUS, y. Especially - A
campaign for the utilization of garb-
age has been inalgurated BY the
United States Food Administration to
reclaim millions Of dollars worth of
material now being wasted and to
urge upon hOusekcepers the necessity
for keeping garbage Kitchen and
table refuse) n . separate container
from other house refuse.
Figures and statistics issued BY the
Food Administrator show that in one
ton of garbage there is sufficient
glycerine to make the explosive
charge for fourteen IS millimeter
shells, enough fatty acid" to manu-
facture IS pounds O.. soap. fertilizer
elements 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-
ulatlOn. which is estimated to be over
100000, Is wasting 4.4OO.O 900 pounds
Of nitro-glycerine and 4O,OOO.OOO I2-
ounce cakes of soap, besides 10000
tons of tankage which contains fer
tilizer elements sufficient TO produce
a 3,O1O,0O0-5-shel wheat crop. The
value of this loss of materials is
estimated at S5.0O0.0OO.
=
garbage utilization plants the figures
show that q 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
mun.tiOu making. Plans are under
way n several cities for the manu-
facture of alcohol on q large scale
from garbage and from experiments
It has been shown that the grade Of
alcohol produced equals a high grade
grain product
Don't Burn Garbage
But IN these - 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 9.OJO. 600
pounds of grease IS lost. or sufficient
to produce 100000 pounds Of nitro
glycerine. which world furnish the
powder charge Of about 2.OOO. GOO
shells Of the famous French SEVENTY
fves-" In addition there IS a loss Of
fatty acids sufficient 70 ulanufacturs
100000 lZ-Ounce cakes OF soap.
II. n these . cities the carriage
was kept clean" or free from bottles.
TN cans, crOckery and other foreign
matter, the saving 70 the government
would De many million dollars more
The responsibility devoEves upon the
shoulders Of the housewife. who =
urged to see that nothing but garbage
goes into the garbage pail Other
house refuse has : value. but IS value
Is lost and the value OF the garbage
Is lost il refuse and garbage are
mixed
The same Is true about garbage
that Is 70 be used as hog feed. Tle
Food Administration i also Urvl-Z
that table and kitchen refaSe be fed
to hogs and Is driving h0rs TO the
hOuSekeeper the fzct that one ton Of
vii produce 100 pounds Of
gOOd, firm first quality pork
Figures from 600 cities Of over
1O.Oo0 population, which are dIxposir-
Of their garbage As hog feed. ar
daily demonstrating this fact The
combined population Of these cities l.
mere than s-OC0. .00O and the estimated
yield Of pork should Be 1000 eco
pounds Bat because Of poor sspara-
o01- l7ediols materials and losses. rhe
amount Of gzr5age-fed pork that Is
actually marketed each year i ozlv +.
5s.0O0eo9 poGzdS. Ekich has . vsIze 1
If over Ss,aeO. coo.