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Millions from Waste

Chapter 24: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

This work surveys methods and industries that reclaim and convert waste into valuable materials, arguing that large-scale recovery can yield significant commercial and national benefits. It outlines economic causes of waste and compares practices, including foreign approaches, municipal salvage, military and slaughterhouse refuse, and industrial by-products such as fats, bones, paper, oils, nitrogenous matter, and coal residues. Case studies and technologies—magnetic salvage, waste-derived fertilizers, sewage sludge processing, and construction materials—illustrate practical recovery techniques and inventions. The book concludes by considering remaining opportunities and future development for turning refuse into revenue and conserving raw resources.

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious errors in punctuation have been fixed.

Page 12: “preparation of magarine” changed to “preparation of margarine”

Page 38: “aggreeable surprise” changed to “agreeable surprise”

Page 44: “authorities succintly” changed to “authorities succinctly”

Page 121: “in these circumstance” changed to “in these circumstances”

Page 136: “rather then decreasing” changed to “rather than decreasing”

Page 141: “while thay have achieved” changed to “while they have achieved”

Page 149: “a specialy designed” changed to “a specially designed”

Page 162: “peculiarly situate” changed to “peculiarly situated”

Page 272: “enchanced recovery” changed to “enhanced recovery”

Page 300: “naturally subsidary” changed to “naturally subsidiary”