Process for producing and recovering valuable materials from municipal waste

Abstract

Abstract A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AND RECOVERING VALUABLE MATERIALS FROM A BURDEN COMPRISING A MIXTURE OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC WASTE MATERIALS COMPRISING THE STEPS OF SEPARATING LARGE REFUSE ITEMS FROM THE BURDEN AND SEPARATELY RECOVERING SAME OPENING CONTAINERS OF REDUCE PRESENT IN THE BURDEN AND SEPARATELY RECOVERING THE CONTAINERS; SUBJECTING THE BURDEN TO A MAGNETIC SEPARATION ORGANATION AND SEPARATELY RECOVERING THE MAGNETIC MATERIALS; CLASSIFYING THE NON-MAGNETIC MATERIALS ACCORDING TO SIZE RANGES; REMOVING DISCRETE ITEMS OF REFUSE SUCH AS GLASS, PLASTIC, METALS, PAPER AND THE LIKE FROM THE LARGE SIZE RANGE MATERIAL AND SEPARATELY RECOVERING THE DISCRETE REFUSE ITEMS, COMMINUTING THE LARGE AND INTERMEDIATE SIZE RANGE MATERIALS AND CONTAINING THE COMMINUTED MATERIAL WITH THE SMALL SIZE RANGE MATERIAL TO FROM AN ORGANIC MASS, COMPOSING THE ORGANICS MASS, PREFERABLY IN A MIXTURE WITH RAW SEWAGE; AND RECOVERING A STERILE COMPOST.

Inventors

• 👤 Marvin Presses

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