Recycling & Recovery of Materials from Trash Waste Management Landfills Garbage 92214 (1975)

Synopsis

This is a 1960s era, color movie. The movie is narrated. This movie is about the Black Clawson Company and what they are doing about recycling trash and reducing land pollution. The movie opens on a street in a suburb as men collect the trash. About half (50%) of the trash collected in America is paper:36. The trash arrives at the municipal, sanitary landfill:47. This trash rots, blows away and can cause a serious health threat 1:00. Black Clawson has developed a wet system which provides a method of reclaiming paper fibre, glass and metal so they can be recycled into our economy. The Back Clawson Company presents, Hydrasposal Fibreclaim. Solid Waste Systems for Municipalities and Industry. A front loader scoops up trash at the dump 2:15. A schematic diagram of the pilot Hydrasposal Fibreclaim plan in Middletown, Ohio 2:46. Junk remover, screw thickener and the tank in the background - just some of the equipment used in the recycling system 3:20. The components associated with the Fibreclaim system 3:35. Paper mills screens and cleaners 3:39. At the input end of the pilot plan, refuse is collected and put onto a conveyor belt which supplies material to the Hydropulper at the rate of 1 ton per hour 3:46. This is residential trash 4:00. Familiar items like plastic bags enter the Hydropulper 4:20. As items fall into the vortex, they are dispersed almost immediately 4:49. Items that are not ground-up such as metal, cans, rocks and bones are ejected out of the side of the pulper…

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10 minutes

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Ephemeral Films

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