Journal of the Association of Engineers, India

P. N. Bagchi

Abstract

By city refuse, we mean waste substances occurring every day in various walks of life in a city. The principal sources of such refuse, with their usual seasonal variation both in quality and quantity, may be classified under the following broad-heads:

(1) Domestic, (2) Street, (3) Trade, (4) Market, (5) Garden, (6) Bustee.

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P. N. Bagchi

Abstract

In some of the big cities of our country Mechanical Transport system has been introduced in recent years and this system is working quite satisfactorily too. It is a distinct move to the right direction and it can be imagined that within a few years all the big cities will have complete mechanical system; but this system too has problems of its own. Unfortunately even in these days we have not in our possession sufficient datas to tackle these problems. In the following pages attempts will be made to show how the transport cost depends on the various factors and also a way how they can be solved.

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