This revised edition of a seminal work in the field of urban environmental history traces the development of waste management and related technologies from the Progressive Era to the present.
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"A seminal examination of a too often neglected by-product of the technical and economic revolutions of the twentieth century."
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“A groundbreaking description of how modern garbage collection and disposal were born out of a reaction to the filthy living conditions that were a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution . . . also assesses the impact of federal and state solid waste and recycling laws.”
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municipal housecleaning, solid waste dilemma, refuse problem, refuse management, garbage crematories, mixed refuse, sanitary fill, garbage crisis, municipal refuse, solid waste industry, city cleanliness, sanitation reform, filth theory, street cleaning, municipal housekeeping, municipal sanitation, refuse reform, feeding garbage, sanitary engineers, garbage problem, refuse disposal, integrated waste management, solid waste problem, municipal responsibility, solid waste management Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York City, World War, Colonel Waring, San Francisco, City Beautiful, Engineering News, Los Angeles, Rudolph Hering, Saint Louis, New Jersey, New Orleans, Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, White Wings, Census Office, Department of Commerce, Department of Street Cleaning, Fresh Kills, Tammany Hall, American Public Health Association, Colonel Morse, Harper's Weekly, Office of Solid Waste, Tenth Census New!
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municipal housecleaning, solid waste dilemma, refuse problem, refuse management, garbage crematories, mixed refuse, sanitary fill, garbage crisis, municipal refuse, solid waste industry, city cleanliness, sanitation reform, filth theory, street cleaning, municipal housekeeping, municipal sanitation, refuse reform, feeding garbage, sanitary engineers, garbage problem, refuse disposal, integrated waste management, solid waste problem, municipal responsibility, solid waste management Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York City, World War, Colonel Waring, San Francisco, City Beautiful, Engineering News, Los Angeles, Rudolph Hering, Saint Louis, New Jersey, New Orleans, Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, White Wings, Census Office, Department of Commerce, Department of Street Cleaning, Fresh Kills, Tammany Hall, American Public Health Association, Colonel Morse, Harper's Weekly, Office of Solid Waste, Tenth Census New!
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- Why Do We Recycle?: Markets, Values, and Public Policy by Frank Ackerman on 5 pages
- Why Do We Recycle?: Markets, Values, and Public Policy by Frank Ackerman on 5 pages
- Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive-Era New York City by Daniel Burnstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850-1950 by Gregory Summers in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cash For Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America by Carl Zimring in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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