Generation, prevention, characterization, monitoring, treatment, handling, reuse and residual disposition of wastes

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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-.

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.

Samoochishchenie vody i migr︠at︡si︠︡ia zagri︠a︡zneniĭ po troficheskŏi︠︡ tsepi / [otvetstvennyĭ redaktor M. M. Telitchenko].

Facts respecting the drainage of London and the pollution of the Thames / from the reminiscences of an octogenarian, medical officer, in retirement.

Field investigation of waste water reclamation in relation to ground water pollution.

The Giving Challenge Prizes / Constance Agyeman.

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Waste Management

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Samoochishchenie vody i migr︠at︡si︠︡ia zagri︠a︡zneniĭ po troficheskŏi︠︡ tsepi / [otvetstvennyĭ redaktor M. M. Telitchenko].

Facts respecting the drainage of London and the pollution of the Thames / from the reminiscences of an octogenarian, medical officer, in retirement.

Field investigation of waste water reclamation in relation to ground water pollution.

The Giving Challenge Prizes / Constance Agyeman.

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.

Waste Management

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Images referencing Waste Management

Works from the collections

Samoochishchenie vody i migr︠at︡si︠︡ia zagri︠a︡zneniĭ po troficheskŏi︠︡ tsepi / [otvetstvennyĭ redaktor M. M. Telitchenko].

Facts respecting the drainage of London and the pollution of the Thames / from the reminiscences of an octogenarian, medical officer, in retirement.

Field investigation of waste water reclamation in relation to ground water pollution.

The Giving Challenge Prizes / Constance Agyeman.

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.

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