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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-.

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.

Wasteland : the dirty truth about what we throw away, where it goes, and why it matters / Oliver Franklin-Wallis.

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

Disposal and purification of factory wastes or manufacturing sewage / by H. W. Clark.

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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.

Wasteland : the dirty truth about what we throw away, where it goes, and why it matters / Oliver Franklin-Wallis.

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

Disposal and purification of factory wastes or manufacturing sewage / by H. W. Clark.

Please make your rubbish animal-friendly / RSPCA.