Reading Cadence

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


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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)

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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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