Word: trashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for WEEI, because that's an all-news station, and it may snow again soon. By the way--where does WBZ-FM come off calling itself a "New Wave" station (they announce the fact four times an hour, instead of playing commercials; somehow, considering the utterly objectionable recycled trash they've been playing these days, commercials might not be such a bad idea...Hmmm..."You're listening to the best in commercial radio, WBZ-FM Boston. That was Tom Carvel, from his Yonkers period, doing the classic 'Every Wednesday it's Sundae!' And now, cats and kittens...
Imploded gas, Exploded trash, You glowing speck upon a plate, Of Einstein's world you 've made a mess...
Chicago already has a municipally owned waste-processing plant with the capacity to transform an average of 700 tons of trash a day into pellets that are the energy equivalent of 120,000 tons of coal a year; it sells them to Commonwealth Edison Co. In Saugus, Mass., a Swiss-developed technique used by New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons...
...prospects brighten for making big money out of muck, a whole new industry has sprung up. Some firms, such as Wheelabrator-Frye. Grumman Corp. and UOP Inc., have been using technologies that basically consist of burning the trash in specially constructed heavy-duty incinerators to produce steam for electricity and heating. Other companies, including American Can, Raytheon, CEA and Occidental Petroleum, are experimenting with more complex systems that would produce synthetic fuels...
...keep pace with ambition. Monsanto, after successfully experimenting with a small-scale advanced system that burned solid waste with very little oxygen to produce synthetic oil or gas, set up a recovery plant in Baltimore. Under the larger-scale operating conditions, snarls developed in the conveyor belt that fed trash into the kiln. That, among other technical problems, led Monsanto to give up, but the city of Baltimore continues to work on the plant, hoping to make it succeed. The cost of building garbage-processing plants is high too; Raytheon is spending $50 million to put up one in Monroe...