Author: Charles Value ChapinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Municipal Sanitation in the United States
Author: Charles Value ChapinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
Author: Robin NaglePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466836733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
America'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.
Municipal and Rural Sanitation
Author: Victor Marcus EhlersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Garbage In The Cities
Author: Martin V. MelosiPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972689
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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 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.
Municipal Sanitation Under War Conditions
Author: United States. Office of Civilian DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A Guide to Municipal Sanitation
Author: Interstate Commission on the Potomac River BasinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sewage disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Resisting Garbage
Author: Lily Baum PollansPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477323708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today. Most current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers’ environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this “weak recycling waste regime,” Pollans zooms in on the very different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the last forty years. While Boston’s local politics resulted in a waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new frameworks for thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.
The Collection and Disposal of Municipal Waste
Author: William Francis MorsePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Municipal Sanitation in the United States
Author: Charles Value ChapinPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021155269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover the history and evolution of municipal sanitation systems in the United States with Charles Value Chapin. Readers will learn the importance of sanitation in promoting public health and disease prevention. This book is a must-read for public health officials, policymakers, and students in related fields. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Collection and Disposal of Municipal Waste in New York City
Author: Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.). Health and Sanitation CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description