Abstract: A furnace for the combustion of moist waste materials having an axial combustion chamber surrounded in part by two communicating air jackets between which air jackets the waste combustible material is disposed, air being forced through the air jackets into the moist combustible material and combustion chamber. A second embodiment having vertical draft pipes disposed in the moist combustible material to reduce odors produced therein and having an additional air jet provided in the exhaust stream of the combustion chamber.