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Timeline of Waste Management 2
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- 1900 | New Amsterdam - later Manhattan - makes it against the law to throw garbage into the streets.
Virginia colonists bury their trash, including oyster shells, bones, building debris, broken glass and even hundreds of suits of armor.
Human waste was recycled in Japan for fertilizer. It was so popular that even with the threat of prison, it was sometimes stolen due to its high cost.
Pigs were used in many cities to eat garbage in the streets.
A law is put in place to protect vultures from hunters in Charleston, West Virginia because the birds help eat the garbage.
Washington, D. C. residents continue to dump slops and garbage into the streets, pigs roam the city at large and the buildings were all infested with cockroaches and rats.
The first waste incinerator was built in Gibralter, Michigan.
New York City stops the dumping of trash into the East River from a platform.
Trash is collected and incinerated in Nottingham, England.
New York City begins incinerating garbage on Governors Island in New York Harbor.
Piggeries become common. It is thought 75 pigs could eat a ton of garbage daily. | Timeline of Waste Management 2 1 3
| Bibliography of the Timeline of Waste Management 2 Girovich (1996). Biosolids Treatment.
Alexander, J (1993). In Defense of Garbage.
Woodside, G (1999). Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste Management.
Tchobanoglous, G , Theisen, H and Vigil, S (1993). Integrated Solid Waste Management.
Fan, K, Lin, C and Chang, T (Jul 25, 2005). Management and performance of Taiwan's waste recycling fund. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association.
Curlee, T and Das, S (1991). Plastic Wastes, Management, Control, Recycling, and Disposal. Pollution Technology Review.
Neal, H and J. Schubel, J(1987). Solid Waste Management and the Environment, Mounting Garbage and Trash Crisis. |
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