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Urban Wastes Management¹

ABSTRACT

A role for agriculture in the management of urban wastes is presented. The point of view is that of agricultural engineers who would endeavor to gainfully utilize all wastes as a conservation measure, giving particular attention to utilizing bio-degradable solid wastes in the soil.

Methods or techniques now widely used for the disposal of urban wastes are ocean dumping, land filling, incineration, composting, and reclamation and salvage. However, some restriction or even outright prohibition is being applied to several of these techniques.

Therefore, in order to effectively manage urban solid wastes with the ultimate objective of maximum recovery of resources, it is considered essential that land utilization be added to the techniques presently used. This paper details the incorporation of wastes directly into the soil, and describes the equipment necessary to do this successfully.

¹ Paper presented Dec. 28–29, 1970, in Chicago, Ill., at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section "O" Agriculture Symposium on "Agriculture and the Quality of the Environment in the Seventies."

² Research Professor of Agriculture Engineering and Professor of Agricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J. 08903.