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The invention is an improved system for separating waste products into several components and then providing for total utilization thereof. The systemitized arrangement integrates numerous automatic operations to produce the separation of the components and then provides for automatically directing

The invention is an improved system for separating waste products into several components and then providing for total utilization thereof. The systemitized arrangement integrates numerous automatic operations to produce the separation of the components and then provides for automatically directing the separated components to ultimate destinations for total utilization. The system first processes bulk waste products such as garbage, rubbish, and other discarded material and shreds it into small size particles. The shredded waste products are then mixed with sewage sludge received from another source. The mixture is then processed through a controlled sludge composting means. At this point a first benefit is derived by means of hot exhaust air from the controlled sludge composting means being directed to a hot house structure to aid in the growth of food products. Following the controlled sludge composting means the resulting compost is separated by screening and the fine material is further cured for direct use in agriculture and gardening type operations. The large particles are further separated by magnetic and ballistic means into various components for specified distribution and uses. Concurrently, following the aforementioned shredder, a high velocity air classifier directs the paper, light plastics, and similar waste matter to an incinerating process for generating steam which is used for heating, generating electricity, and other useful purposes. The automatic operations eliminates the need for manual labor for separation and classification operations.

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A method for systemitizing the mechanical separation and classification of a mass of waste products into the component elements of said mass of waste products without any manual separation or classification of said mass of waste products and then making a total utilization of all of said component e

A method for systemitizing the mechanical separation and classification of a mass of waste products into the component elements of said mass of waste products without any manual separation or classification of said mass of waste products and then making a total utilization of all of said component elements, comprising: mechanically shredding said waste product components into a plurality of bit pieces and a plurality of chunk-like sizes, then mechanically separating burnable light-weight particles of said component elements, mechanically incinerating said separated light-weight particles to generate a usable energy means, after mechanically removing said light-weight particles mechanically mixing all of the remaining components of said waste product components with sewage sludge, mechanically automatically composting the mixture of said remaining components of said waste product components and said sewage sludge to remove biodegradable materials and contaminants from recoverable materials, mechanically screening the composted materials to separate fine textured composted material for agriculture use from a mass of heavy large particles of the now cleaned non-biodegradable materials, mechanically automatically curing said fine textured composted material, mechanically and magnetically removing ferrous type materials from said mass of heavy large particles, and mechanically ballistically separating non-ferrous materials in said mass of heavy large particles into the components thereof, subsequently disposing of said separated ferrous and non-ferrous materials for recycling, and the cured composted material for agricultural uses, the aforementioned sequencing of operations affecting the resulting cleaned non-biodegradable materials and the effected separation and classification of said components of said mass of waste products.