Collection and Disposal of Municipal Waste in New York City
Author: Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.). Health and Sanitation Committee
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 28
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Author: Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.). Health and Sanitation Committee
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 28
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 496
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robin Nagle
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1466836733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica's largest city generates garbage in torrents—11,000 tons from households each day on average. But New Yorkers don't give it much attention. They leave their trash on the curb or drop it in a litter basket, and promptly forget about it. And why not? On a schedule so regular you could almost set your watch by it, someone always comes to take it away. But who, exactly, is that someone? And why is he—or she—so unknown? In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle introduces us to the men and women of New York City's Department of Sanitation and makes clear why this small army of uniformed workers is the most important labor force on the streets. Seeking to understand every aspect of the Department's mission, Nagle accompanied crews on their routes, questioned supervisors and commissioners, and listened to story after story about blizzards, hazardous wastes, and the insults of everyday New Yorkers. But the more time she spent with the DSNY, the more Nagle realized that observing wasn't quite enough—so she joined the force herself. Driving the hulking trucks, she obtained an insider's perspective on the complex kinships, arcane rules, and obscure lingo unique to the realm of sanitation workers. Nagle chronicles New York City's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, and traces the city's waste-management efforts from a time when filth overwhelmed the streets to the far more rigorous practices of today, when the Big Apple is as clean as it's ever been. Throughout, Nagle reveals the many unexpected ways in which sanitation workers stand between our seemingly well-ordered lives and the sea of refuse that would otherwise overwhelm us. In the process, she changes the way we understand cities—and ourselves within them.
Author: Rochester Bureau of Municipal Research
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New York (N.Y.). Commission on Street Cleaning and Waste Disposal
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin V. Melosi
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2004-11-26
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0822972689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs 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 residents. In his landmark study, Garbage in the Cities, Martin Melosi offered the first history of efforts begun in the Progressive Era to clean up this mess.Since it was first published, Garbage in the Cities has remained one of the best historical treatments of the subject. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that expand the discussion of developments since World War I. It also offers a discussion of the reception of the first edition, and an examination of the ways solid waste management has become more federally regulated in the last quarter of the twentieth century.Melosi traces the rise of sanitation engineering, accurately describes the scope and changing nature of the refuse problem in U.S. cities, reveals the sometimes hidden connections between industrialization and pollution, and discusses the social agendas behind many early cleanliness programs. Absolutely essential reading for historians, policy analysts, and sociologists, Garbage in the Cities offers a vibrant and insightful analysis of this fascinating topic.
Author: Roy F. Weston, inc
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harry de Berkeley Parsons
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New York Public Library
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 200
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