如何处理垃圾。

如何处理垃圾。

Fire officials have traced a good many fires to cotton waste saturated with oil and left thrown out of sight in some corner of the mill. There is nothing so satisfactory for wiping up machinery, we are told by The Tradesman, as cotton waste, although in many concerns in the North and East, cotton mills especially, they use woolen wipers exclusively. They consist of pieces of soft woolen cloth about 18 inches square, neatly hemmed on all sides to prevent raveling. These wipers are washed by steam and steam power when they become dirty, and although they are not as agreeable to wipe up with, they have the advantage of being safe as far as spontaneous combustion is concerned. It is for this purpose that woolen is used, although it does not take the dirt off a machine quite as well as cotton will.

In some mills where waste is used in spite of its fire-bug proclivities, special precautions are taken to prevent its being left around where it could do harm in case it did become ignited. To this end, some concerns require that before a piece of new waste will be given out, the old must be returned into a receptacle provided for it at the tool-room or stock room window. This would be a good rule if it would only work, but it won't. When a man brings back a piece of waste, the stock man cannot tell whether he brings back the whole or only a part of what he took away, and the remainder may be stowed where it could do damage.