Show New Resource Recovery Program Will Wil Benefit City Power Company Copany Industry and government are cooperating in Wisconsin to initiate a Ii major recycling pro pro- gram In in January Arner cology American Can Company's resource re- re source recovery system took on as as s its first comm commercial customer cui cus tomer tomer the city of Milwaukee Milwaukee- the largest large t municipality in th the US U.S. to sign up for large for large scale solid waste recycling Under the year 15 agreement Ameri American can Can will wm design construct f finance nance and and operate an 18 million resource recovery project project project to process s the city's municipal municipal municipal pal solid olid waste waste While American Can as assumes assumes as- as Mimes re responsibility for disposal disposal disposal dis dis- dis- dis of Milwaukee's solid waste beginning January 1 1 1976 1916 actual resource recovery will begin in m mid d The system will be capable of handling handling handling han han- all tons of municipal municipal municipal mu mu- solid waste presently generated by the city annually with additional capacity for processing up to tons Milwaukee has a population of about The sy system tem will isolate the recoverable and recyclable materials ma- ma in refuse through shredding shredding shredding shred shred- ding air classification and magnetic magnetic mag mag- and mechanical electro separation to enable recovery of up to 80 per cent of the total incoming waste Currently Currently Currently Cur Cur- all of the city's refuse is Recoverable materials are estimated at 7 per cent bundled new newspaper paper and corrugated board 7 per cent ferrous met mete als 5 per cent glassy aggregate and 1 per cent aluminum Here another industry comes into the picture 50 SO to 60 per cent of the refuse is a combustible fuel product which will be sold to Wisconsin i Electric Power Co for generating power According to an article in Outlet a magazine published for of Wisconsin Electric Power Wisconsin Natural Natural Natural Nat Nat- ural Gas Wisconsin Michigan Power and Badger Service companies Wisconsin Electric has begun engineering plans to pipe the refuse to the boilers of one of its power plants |