Garbage In The Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment by Martin V. Melosi

Garbage In The Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment

Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ

Martin V. Melosi

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

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As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of resi...

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