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Refuse and refuse disposal

Images

  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Hygiene: a child is told to throw a food wrapper into a bin, not drop it on the ground. Colour lithograph, 198-.
  • Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • Djibouti: waste disposal and its effects on health. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Kamaman, Trengganu, Malaya: controlled tipping trench used for refuse disposal. Photograph, 1948.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
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Catalogue

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    A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

    Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836. | Date: 25 September 1834 | Reference: 43318i
    • Books

    Wasteland : the dirty truth about what we throw away, where it goes, and why it matters / Oliver Franklin-Wallis.

    Franklin-Wallis, Oliver | Date: 2024
    • Books

    Environmental markets in Europe / Department of Trade and Industry Environment Unit.

    | Date: 1991
    • Books
    • Online

    Disposal and purification of factory wastes or manufacturing sewage / by H. W. Clark.

    | Date: 1910
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.

    | Date: 1993
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