HC Deb 18 April 1918 vol 105 cc539-40
20. Captain WRIGHT

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether satisfactory arrangements have been made by the London county and borough councils to keep and feed pigs on the kitchen refuse collected in their areas, or whether many tons of this is daily fed to the destructor furnaces?

Mr. CLYNES

Conferences of all local authorities in the London area have been held under the auspices of the National Salvage Council, when the necessity for conserving all organic refuse for the feeding of pigs has been impressed upon them. It is hoped that schemes will shortly be put into operation for increasing the proportion of refuse so used.

Captain WRIGHT

The schemes are not in operation at present?

Mr. CLYNES

In one or two instances they are.

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