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A seminal examination of a too often neglected by-product of the technical and economic revolutions of the twentieth century. - Technology and Culture; Tells us much about American consumption, treatment of natural resources, social organization, and public spirit. - Journal of American History; An important book on a vexing, critical problem.... This is an issue on which history has much to say, and we can benefit by learning from the littered path we have trod. - Journal of Economic History; Whether a sign of poverty (then) or of abundance (now), trash has been and remains a primary by-product of urban life. With this reprint edition, a new generation of scholars will have ready access to a foundational study of solid waste management in American cities, a book that set out lines of inquiry on equity and environmental justice, on women and municipal housekeeping, on urban ecology that redefined urban studies. This is a classic. - Greg Hise, University of Southern California

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Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and founding director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. Melosi received the Distinguished Research Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the Am

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