Cleveland in one year produced 2,940,000 pounds of grease and 10,016,000 pounds of tankage, the city receiving for them $151,162.48. This reduction cost per ton of green garbage was $1.97½ and the earnings per ton of green garbage was $3.47, making the net earnings per ton of garbage $1.49½.
New York City is selling its garbage to a private company. It made a contract for 1914 to 1916, inclusive, and the right to renew the contract for two more years on the same terms and conditions. The city receives at the rate of $62,500 for the first, $87,500 for the second, and $112,500 for the third and each of the succeeding two years. Plans are now being made to operate a municipal plant.
─────────────┬───────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┬───────┬────── Name │ Method of │By Whom Done│ City Own │ City │ Is │ Disposal │ │Dump? If Not,│ Own │ farm │ │ │Annual Rental│ Farm │Rented │ │ │ │ and │ by │ │ │ │ Hogs? │City? │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼───────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┼───────┼────── New York │Reduction. │Contract. │ │ │ City[54] │ │ Building │ │ │ │ │ municipal │ │ │ │ │ plant. │ │ │ Buffalo │Dumping and │Contract. │Some of them.│ │ │ Incineration.│ │ │ │ Rochester │Reduction. │Contract. │ │ │ │ │ City has │ │ │ │ │ decided to│ │ │ │ │ own its │ │ │ │ │ plant. │ │ │ Albany │Fed to pigs. │Contract. │ │No. │No. Binghamton │Feeding and │Private │ │No. │No. │ burning. │ sanitary │ │ │ │ │ companies.│ │ │ Schenectady │Reduction. │City. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Syracuse │Reduction. │Contract, │ │ │ │ │ planning │ │ │ │ │ municipal │ │ │ │ │ operation.│ │ │ Troy │Dumping. │Contract. │$12,000 │ │ Yonkers │Incineration. │City. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Utica │Reduction. │Contract. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ New Rochelle │Incineration. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Watertown │Feeding to │ │ │No. │No. │ pigs. │ │ │ │ Auburn │Dumping and │ │ │ │ │ ploughing │ │ │ │ │ under. │ │ │ │ Beacon │Dumping for │ │No. No │ │ │ fill. │ │ rental. │ │ Mechanicville│Dumping for │Contract. │No. No │ │ │ fill. │ │ rental. │ │ Dunkirk │Feeding and │ │No. │No. │No. │ ploughing │ │ │ │ │ under. │ │ │ │ Saratoga │Dumping. │ │$50 per yr. │ │ Middletown │Dumping for │ │No. │ │ │ fill. │ │ │ │ Kingston │Dumping. │ │No. │ │ Jamestown │Ploughing │Contract. │No. │ │ │ under. │ │ │ │ Fulton │Dumping for │ │Yes. │ │ │ fill. │ │ │ │ Port Jervis │Dumping. │Contract. │No. │ │ Elmira │Incineration │Dumping only│No. $300. │ │ │ and dumping. │ by city. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Salamanca │Dumping. │City. │ │ │ Rome │Dumping. │ │ │ │ Niagara Falls│Dumping in │ │ │ │ │ river. │ │ │ │ Cortland │Dumping. │Contract. │No. │ │ Cohoes │Dumping. │ │Owned by │ │ │ │ │ contractor.│ │ Plattsburgh │Dumping on land│ │One dump. │ │ │ and in water.│ │ │ │ Ithaca │Dumping for │City. │Some. No │ │ │ fill. │ │ rental. │ │ Olean │Feeding to │ │ │No. │No. │ hogs. │ │ │ │ Johnstown │Dumping. │ │No. $100 per │ │ │ │ │ year. │ │ Ogdensburg │Dumping. │ │ │ │ Gloversville │Dumping. │Contract. │Yes. │ │ Hudson │Feeding to │Contract. │No. │No. │No. │ hogs. │ │ │ │ Little Falls │Feeding to │Contract. │ │No. │No. │ hogs. │ │ │ │ North │Ploughed under.│Contract. │No. No │ │ Tonawanda │ │ │ rental. │ │ Newburgh │Feeding and │Contract. │ │No. │No. │ ploughing │ │ │ │ │ under. │ │ │ │ Norwich │Dumping. │ │No. $50. │ │ Mount Vernon │Feeding and │Contract. │Contractor │No. │No. │ dumping for │ │ rents it. │ │ │ fill. │ │ │ │ Lockport │Feeding and │City. │Yes. │No. │No. │ dumping. │ │ │ │ Hornell │Feeding and │City. │No. $50. │No. │No. │ ploughing │ │ │ │ │ under. │ │ │ │ Rensselaer │Feeding and │City. │Yes. │No. │No. │ dumping. │ │ │ │ Batavia │Dumping and │City. │Yes. │No. │No. │ feeding. │ │ │ │ Tonawanda │Feeding and │Contract. │No. │No. │No. │ dumping. │ │ │ │ Corning │Feeding to │Contract. │Contractor │No. │No. │ hogs. │ │ owns farm. │ │ Oswego │Dumping on │ │ │ │ │ land. │ │ │ │ Canandaigua │Feeding to │Private │ │No. │No. │ hogs. │ company. │ │ │ Borough of │Crematories, │Crematories │No. │ │ Queens │ dumping and │ and dumps │ │ │ │ reduction. │ by city. │ │ │ │ │ Reduction │ │ │ │ │ by │ │ │ │ │ contract. │ │ │ Amsterdam │Incineration. │City. │ │ │ Poughkeepsie │Dumping. │City. │No. │ │ Atlanta, Ga. │Incineration. │Contract. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Columbus, │Reduction. │City. │ │ │ Ohio │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cincinnati, │Reduction. │Contract. │ │ │ O. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Milwaukee, │Incineration. │City. │ │ │ Wis. │ │ │ │ │ Detroit, │Reduction. │Contract. │ │ │ Mich. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Washington, │Reduction. │Contract. │ │ │ D. C. │ │ │ │ │ St. Louis, │Reduction. │Contract. │ │ │ Mo. │ │ │ │ │ Lawrence, │Feeding to │ │ │Two │ Mass. │ pigs.