Refuse Collection

Coal dumping plant, Conneaut, Ohio, ca 1900. Creator: Unknown
Coal dumping plant, Conneaut, Ohio, ca 1900

Coal dumping machine, Ashtabula, Ohio, ca 1900. Creator: Unknown
Coal dumping machine, Ashtabula, Ohio, ca 1900

National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, c1896. Creator: Unknown
National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, c1896. Landscape: John Charles Olmsted, from 1896. Other: John Henry Patterson was founder of National Cash Register Company

Dustmen and dust cart in Beckett Street, Camberwell, London, 1903. A horse waits with a cart while men with baskets collect refuse from three-storey terraced houses

Dustman carrying a basket of refuse on his back, 1820. Artist: Thomas Lord Busby
Dustman carrying a basket of refuse on his back, 1820. With another basket and spade in front of him and a bell on the floor behind him

The poor of Berlin rummaging in refuse heaps, Germany, c1914-c1918. About 750, 000 German civilians died from starvation as a result of the British naval blockade of Germany during World War I

Waste ready for incineration in giant crane grab jaws, St Helier, Jersey, 1980. Artist
Waste ready for incineration in giant crane grab jaws, St Helier, Jersey, 1980. Jerseys new incinerator at St Helier opened in the late 1970s in a bid to reduce the amount of landfill in the limited

Cromwell Resolving to Refuse the Crown, c1858, (1911). Artist: Charles Lucy
Cromwell Resolving to Refuse the Crown, c1858, (1911). In 1657, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) was offered the crown by Parliament as part of a revised constitutional settlement

Sorting a dust heap at a County Council Depot, London, c1850 (1903). Dust-yards were privately run waste sorting centres, sifting and sorting varying grades of rubbish

Shell Mound People, 4000-2000 BC (c1880). The Shell Mound People, or Kitchen-Middeners, were hunter-gatherers of the late Mesolithic and early Neolithic period

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