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Refuse and refuse disposal

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

    | Date: 1991
  • view Disposal and purification of factory wastes or manufacturing sewage / by H. W. Clark.
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    Disposal and purification of factory wastes or manufacturing sewage / by H. W. Clark.

    | Date: 1910
  • view Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.
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    Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.

    | Date: 1993
  • view How to dispose of our refuse : a review of some of the principal systems proposed or adopted : being the contribution of Dr Syson (Medical Officer of Health for Salford) to the discussion on the above subject, at the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.
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    How to dispose of our refuse : a review of some of the principal systems proposed or adopted : being the contribution of Dr Syson (Medical Officer of Health for Salford) to the discussion on the above subject, at the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.

    Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association. | Date: 1869
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