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Show 6F Hie SrJt Lake Tribune, Sunday. October Revolutionary Solution For Waste, Burn It 10, 1971 can one man do lo fight pollution? That question is disdainfully tossed about m a society bewildered by ail issue that threatens hfe quality throughout the United States. The issue is ecology; Lhe man is Clifford Green; and Ills Little contribution is a combustion toilet John, that requires no electricity, no water, no chemicals, and r.o plumbing. Manufactured by Jf Chinan a Salt International, firm, the Little John is a reliable and convenient sewage disposal unit. Its completely sale. The unit, which sells for $295, weighs only 55 pounds, and when in conveits human operation, waste into a vapor which is exhausted by natuial di aft tluough a flue. A butane or propane Inset is used to provide 21.000 BTU m a sodied combustion chamber. Virtually no odor results. Wlmt Lake-base- tiaileis oi campers were equipped with one of these units, many pollution existing problems presently would be eliminated, sas Gieen. "Cabins, boats, and construction offices in remote areas are also a large market souice for our new product. Jackman International is gearing for full production of the Little John units. About 100 per week will be manufactured by the end of Novem "If Housing: Planned Units Are planned unit develop- ments hasty alternative and from reluctant stepping-stone- s apartment living to single family detached homes tor the middle income family, or is it a ploy by developers to achice more money through packing residential areas? They can be either, both or neither, much depending upon the individual developer and the specific development proposed. Part of the problem is definition. Planned unit developments as a concept may be applied lo any type of building development whether it is commer- or residential, single homes or high rises. Most of the planned unit developments proposed or built in this county utilize the garden apartment, townhouse in either zero lot line or attached unit cial two-stor- y concepts. times uses the common walls. In the planned unit development all houses are not attached, but are clustered in groups of two or more, ideally. as the topography allows in order to save some open space. CONDOMINIUM is an arrangement in which a tenant in an apartment building or complex owns or multiple holds full title to his apartment or suite. A GARDEN APARTMENT gives its owner a very limited private yard as well as joint ownership' in the community and recieational amenities open space, in contrast to the clustered units that offer no private yard at all. A TOWNHOUSE is a structure that can either incorporate the benefits of a or a garden condominium A cost-savin- g New Trees Until 1925, only !.6 million acres of forest had been two-stor- y ed plant- by man in the United States, according to the Industrial Forestry Association. The annual planting today is approximately equal to that figure. Through 1968, more than 30 million acres had been planted. To date, more than three billion seedling trees have been planted in Florida and more than two billion in Georgia, Mississippi and Oregon. apartment. THE ZERO LOT line concept houses are not attached to each other but have a varfive iance of approximately feet between structures which are placed on small lots, while the attached unit concept leaves no variance structures and some d ber. He Sri id the demand for the product is already ut a high .evel. and the company has received orders for several hundred units. "The pollution pioblem stems from the Let that many camper and trailer owneis dump their sewage into a stiearn stead or a lake, of into a proper in- recep- tacle, Green said. "With the Little John there is nothing to dispose of. Everything is burned away. We had a display of the Little John set up during hearrecent environmental ings in Garden City, Utah, near Bear cited Lake, Gieen. "Everyone who looked at it agreed it was a step in the right dnection and that il would solve many of their if problems campers and trailers were equipped with the unit. Health and sanitation m several western states have already expressed their approval of the Little John. They cite it as a practical means of human waste disposal which still preserves the natuial environment. The unit complies with state air pollution regulations, when operated accotding to the manufacturers recommended directions. We curiently have distrib- utors in Utah, Idaho, California, Washington and Oregon states sending us orders, otti-ciu- It is Gieen. Eventually we hope lower chamber, where burned. to have a distributor in each A butterfly valve redeposits state because we know there is a market. Right now were the material into the 'lower chamber automatically as the concentrating on the West. The burning lid is closed. The timing decycle in the Little John is vice operates a gas valve in initiated when the seat lid is the lower chamber which is the lowered after usage. A dial is ignited and consumes set and the butane or propane waste material. If Lhe lid is in the combustion chamber raised during the burning bums for 15 minutes. The cycle, the flame is automati-- c chamber is sealed during the a 1 1 y terminated, which burning cycle as long as the means it can be reused before lid is lowered. A pilot light the full burning cycle is comthe automatically lights plete. chamber when a burn is Little John operates on required. butane, propane, or natural needs gas, obtainable from gas disThe Little John only periodic cleaning as all tributors in containers that that remains is a fine white are attached to pipes or fitash. tings on the toilet. Exhaust We think the unit is not gasses are vented outside like any other stove or heater, but only going to be ideal for exthrough a double-wallecampers, boats, cabins, trailers, and construction sites, haust flue. but picnic areas, golf courses, The burning chamber is isoand other outdoor recreation lated to assure the absence of An sites as well, Green claims. excessive heat build-up- . device Its virtually the only unit of automatic evits kind on the market will shut the burning mechanism down if a temperature erything else utilizes chemiabove 1.200 degrees F. is cals, needi water or plumbreached. The toilet lid and ing, or requires an electrical seat always remain cool power source. enough to allow use of the The unit is similar in apunit immediately after the pearance to a conventional toilet. It is 16 inches high, 24 burning cycle. is only The Litlte John inches long, and only 14 inches wide. It will fit into almost the first of many products which Jackman International all campers and trailers. The interior consists of an upper will produce lor a cleaner, the better world, according to Mr. into which chamber, waste is deposited, and a Green. The company is devel high-spee- d oping models of other waste disposing devices based on Little John the concept. These include units that may be transported by helicopters to forest fire fighting areas and enclosed units for construction sites and for recreaIt is feasible, tion areas. said Green, that an enclosed unit could even be placed on pontoons for use by boaters on lakes and other bodies of water without threatening the natural environment. In antlciaption of an eventual shortage of fresh water for sewage use, Jackman International is a'ready considering development of a whole house waste disposal system utilizing the combustion conceit Little incorporated in the John. d heat-sensin- g Forest The Southern United States is now growing its third forest. Much of the first Southern forest was cleared to provide wood products to build a and 60 growing nation years ago the forests of the South were believed on the verge of exhaustion. 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