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Garbage: A Neglected Resource

Tunney, John V. | May 18, 1974 issue

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Focuses on the significance of garbage recycling as a source of energy in the U.S. administration's aim to achieve self-sufficiency in the production of energy. Need for making investment in new forms of power generation including the transformation of solid waste into energy; Legislative bill being planned by Senate committee on recycling and energy generation from solid waste; Development of technologies required to convert solid waste to energy.

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RECYCLING (Waste, etc.); ENERGY development; ELECTRIC power production; ENERGY policy; UNITED States
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