May 23, 2022

S2 E15: Dirty Dustbins & Sloppy Streets - Ch. 6

39 minutes

From trash dealers to landfills, home refuse disposal transformed the landscape of England, the ocean, and the entire world’s thinking on sanitation. I don’t think I would be spoiling anything to mention that the US is home to world’s largest landfill. Go US!

0:00 - intro

2:59 - Dramatic Reading of Dirty Dustbins & Sloppy Streets (Ch. 3)

26:21 - A (not so) brief discussion

Dirty Dustbins & Sloppy Streets; A Practical Treatise on the Scavenging & Cleansing of Cities & Towns (1881)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54454/54454-h/54454-h.htm#

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Mount Trashmore Park in Virginia

Borough of Staten Island “Fresh Kills Landfill”

Manhattan “Battery Park City” along the Hudson and up 13th Avenue

Saudi Arabia has submitted plans to dump all of their nuclear waste on its side of the border of Qatar, then place a canal in between the two countries effectively turning Qatar into an island instead of a peninsula.

https://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-wants-dump-nuclear-waste-qatari-border-make-enemy-island-879072

https://www.statista.com/statistics/530481/largest-dump-sites-worldwide/

https://www.hintonswaste.co.uk/news/history-of-recycling-timeline/

Credit to https://www.FesliyanStudios.com for the background music.

Credit to https://www.soundjay.com/ for the sound effects

Podcast Photo P/C: https://www.pexels.com/@luan-oosthuizen-823430/collections/

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