Stories
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Delusional recycling and the problem with plastic
Many of us are guilty of wishful thinking when it comes to our rubbish. Arianne Shahvisi exposes shaky recycling infrastructure and overseas dumping, arguing for an end to waste colonialism.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
Catalogue
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Refuse disposal / report of the Ad Hoc Group on Refuse Disposal.
Ad Hoc Group on Refuse DisposalDate: 1970- Books
Pollution of water by tipped refuse : report / of the Technical Committee on the Experimental Disposal of House Refuse in Wet and Dry Pits.
Great Britain. Technical Committee on the Experimental Disposal of House Refuse in Wet and Dry Pits.Date: 1961
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Refuse storage and collection : report / Working Party on Refuse Collection.
Great Britain. Working Party on Refuse Collection.Date: 1967
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Return as to scavenging in urban districts, 1914 / prepared by the Public Health Department, Local Government Board.
Great Britain. Local Government Board. Public Health Department.Date: 1915- Books
Proceedings of the diamond jubilee conference, 1958.
Institute of Public Cleansing annual conference (1958 : Morecambe)Date: [1958]