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Refuse Separation and Incineration Plant.
Work was started in September, 1932, on the construction of
a Refuse Separation and Incineration Plant at an estimated cost
of £19,305. A contract for the plant and buildings to house the
plant has been let to Messrs. Heenan & Froude, Ltd., of Worcester,
for the sum of £12,635 5s. Od. The remainder of the incidental
works, comprising offices, roads, sewers and other services, and
boundary wall, is being carried out by direct labour.
The plant is being erected on a site at the south-west cornet
of the public open space known as Central Park. The nearest
estate development to the north-east is 1.340 yards. Southeast,
at about 540 yards distant, is the Council's housing estate.
The London County Council Becontree Estate lies to the west,
the nearest point being 620 yards. Development cannot take
place on the north or east sides for considerable distances, as
the adjoining lands in these directions are scheduled as open
spaces.
The plant has a capacity of 100 tons of refuse per working
day of 8 hours. The incoming refuse is tipped into a receiving
hopper, whence an inclined belt conveyor feeds continuously to
a rotary screen of mesh, situated at the top of the main building.
The dust extracted by this screen falls into an elevated hopper,
under which vehicles can stand for loading to remove the dust to
tips. The refuse leaving the screen passes through a magnetic
separator, thence on to a combined picking and feed conveyor,
from the first part of which tins, bags, paper and other saleable
materials are salved by hand. The tins and paper are pressed
into bales by power- and hand-operated balers respectively,
ready for sale. The "tailings" are then fed by a movable tripper
to any one of a set of six top-feed incinerator cells, which are
provided with forced draught from a fan. The productss of combustion
are removed by a brick chimney 100 feet high, any dust,
unburnt paper, etc., being removed by a water dust-trap in the
flue leading to the chimney. It is anticipated that the plan
will be ready to be set in operation about the 1st August, 1933.