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Author: Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880-1924
LoC No.: 20002995
Title: Millions from Waste
Original Publication: United States :J. B. Lipincott Company,1920.
Contents: Waste: its relation to commerce and national economy -- The German conquest of waste -- Salvage from the army swill-tub -- The reclamation of military organic waste -- Invention in its application to waste recovery -- Saving the scrap from the sea -- Winning wealth from slaughter-house offal, condemned meat, bones, and blood -- Turning wastes into paper -- Supplying industries from the dust-bin -- Living on waste -- Potato waste as an asset to industry -- Converting nitrogenous refuse into soap -- Turning old oil into new -- By-products from the waste-bin -- The lifting magnet as a waste-developing force -- Reclaiming 321,000,000 gallons of liquid fuel from coal -- Fertilizers from wastes -- Saving the sewage sludge -- House-building with wastes -- The future of the waste problem; possibilities for further development.
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Language: English
LoC Class: TP: Technology: Chemical technology
Subject: Waste products
Subject: Salvage (Waste, etc.)
Release Date: Apr 15, 2022
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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