American Alchemy: The History of Solid Waste Management in the United StatesForesterPress, 2003 - 597 pages |
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Contents
Pioneering Efforts to Improve Refuse Collection and Disposal | 1 |
Building a National Movement | 23 |
Establishing a National Solid Waste Management Infrastructure | 49 |
Collecting Solid WasteNo Longer Beasts of Burden | 115 |
Sometimes a Good Idea Does Not Sell | 163 |
Processing Municipal Solid | 179 |
Fulfilling the Resource Recovery Promise | 221 |
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air classifier aluminum APWA Author's note Chapter City collection vehicle combustion compaction companies composting containers costs County daily cover DSWA electric emissions energy engineering environmental equipment facility federal solid waste Figure fuel fund garbage glass governments grate History of Solid implementation incinerators included industry integrated solid waste leachate LFGTE Magnetic separator manufacturers Marshall Plan Mass-Burn MSW management MSW stream MSW WTE Municipal Solid Waste National Solid Waste NCRR open dumps operation organic packaging paper planning pollution process line processing MSW RCRA recovered materials recycling refuse Refuse-Derived Fuel resource recovery result Sanitary Landfill screen Section shredder solid waste collection solid waste disposal solid waste management solid waste program solid waste reduction Source storage Subtitle SWDA tires trommel United USEPA USPHS utility waste legislation Waste-to-Energy WTE plants