Abstract
Examination of how and why refuse-disposal methods are changing is followed by consideration of correct vehicle design for two recent consequences : bulk initial collection and bulk transport to ultimate disposal.
More refuse now has to be removed from more widely scattered housing, and destructor plants are expensive. Controlled tipping restores the dwindling amount of available land, but increasingly necessitates long distance hauls.
Bulk collection by the large refuse-container method applies modern mechanical handling and bulk-handling technique, effecting improved hygiene, solving labour problems and substantially cutting costs. Promising possibilities of wide application of bulk collecting vehicles and also their design are discussed.
For long distance disposal, collecting vehicle loads should be transferred to bulk transporters. Of the various methods of bulk transport by land or water, large capacity road vehicles have great advantages now that they are available, self-contained or as trailers, up to forty cubic yards capacity —this being made possible by horizontal discharge. Various types and important principles of their design are discussed. Costs are shown to be very favourable.
Thanks to co-operation between operators and specialist firms, this country leads the world in the development of these two new methods which play an important and increasing part in the pattern of future refuse disposal.
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