The Disposal Of Household Wastes Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Disposal of Household Wastes It has been the author's endeavor to give perfectly unbiassed descriptions and unprejudiced comparisons of the various systems Which, at the present day, seem to ofier a possible solution of the problem, supplementing the same With a few exam ples from his own practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Collection and Disposal of Municipal Refuse The recent development in America started in 1887, by the American Public Health Association, with the appointment of a Committee on Garbage Disposal, of which Dr. Kilvington was Chairman. In 1888, this Committee reported on the Destruction of Organic Refuse by fire. In 1889, a report was presented favoring both reduction and incineration as the promising methods of future garbage disposal. In 1894, Rudolph Hering was appointed Chairman, elaborate statistics were collected from more than a hundred cities, and in 1897 a report was made on the collection and disposal of waste matter in many of these cities, with general conclusions regarding the entire problem. A great diversity of opinion was observed regarding the proper methods to be pursued. The Committee also studied the English experiences and the very complete, instructive, and valuable experiments just then being conducted in Hamburg and Berlin, and presented conclusions which endeavored to place the whole subject on a scientific foundation. The sanitary aspect was given the first and the financial aspect the second place in all recommendations. It was pointed out that a proper solution for any city or town would require a knowledge of the quantity, character, and composition of the refuse, and also of the local conditions controlling the several parts of the problem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Sanitary Disposal of Municipal Waste Civilization costs - and the higher the civilization the greater the cost. One item in the cost of civilization is the price of cleanliness and cleanliness means health and life, for without it there can be neither life, health or civilization. Watch a barnacle in a pool of water at low tide. The creature occupies a pearly house with a trap door in the roof. Suddenly the double door opens, and a delicate hand is thrust out. The fingers close upon some invisible food, the hand is withdrawn and the door closed. Later, when we may not be looking, and when this low form of life has been fed, the door will be opened and the wastage thrown out, because the creature obeys the ancient, primal' instinct - to be clean. A city obeys the same instinct, and the greatest problem now be fore the American people is municipal cleanliness. The wastage of every city must be disposed of every day, or the people perish. Now the key to cleanliness is not a broom - but fire because heat is the great transformer. Dirt has been described as matter out of place. A better definition is matter in the wrong form. The only way to keep a city clean is to transform its poisonous dirt into innocent ash. This has long been known, for the people of ancient cities had their sanitary burning places, where, with purifying fires, they tried in some crude way to ward off plagues and pestilence. We know today that modern science and engineering skill have made it possible to transform a valueless menace to life and health into safe and useful materials, having a real commercial value. It is to this important subject the following pages are devoted and the reader is invited to examine all that here follows because it is believed that the facts here presented are correctly presented, and the deductions based upon them will be found to be borne out by practical experience upon a commercial scale. Two facts stand out in the following pages with convincing clear ness - the safe and rapid destruction of waste material of all kinds is a question of temperature, and the work itself can be done at a profit. Everything burns at some temperature. Five pounds of wet kitchen refuse thrown into the cook stove will put out the fire. Five thou sand pounds thrown into a regenerative destructor will part with its water in a few moments, and then burn rapidly and be speedily transformed into harmless ash. It is purely a question of the rightfurnace and temperature, and what is true of kitchen waste is equally true of every form of wastage from mill, store, house, hotel or hospital. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Although interest in managing old and unwanted consumer products with characteristics of hazardous waste--household cleaners, pesticides, paint products, and automotive products--emerged in the late 1970s, the management of such materials has been a bouncing ball of responsibility for more than two decades. Written by the forefathers and practitioners of household hazardous waste management (HHW), this book provides solid waste management professionals, municipal officials, and environmental students with a comprehensive look at the state of HHW management.