Waste treatment process
US5302331A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 30, 1992 |
| Grant date | Apr 12, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 30, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S264/914
- WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A process for recycling household waste, garbage or trash into useful articles including in one preferred embodiment the steps of collecting the waste material, feeding the waste material into a pulverizer to convert the material to a powdery mass, adding water to the mass to form a slurry, adding a binder to the slurry to inhibit bacteriological growth, pouring or otherwise forming the slurry into a useful shape such as a block, or sheet, and allowing the formed shape to air dry under relatively low humidity. The resulting useful article may then be used as a building block, wall board, ceiling tile and so on. In an alternative example, the binder is added directly to the pulverized waste material to produce a useful article such as a flexible roof shingle.
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