Garbage Collection

Vehicle engine scrap metal

Janitor sitting, taking a break, reading the Wall Street Journal newspaper, rear view
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Janitor sitting, taking a break, reading the Wall Street Journal newspaper, rear view

Man's hand tossing paper into trash can
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Man's hand tossing paper into trash can

Helena, Montana, in 1865
The capital of Montana in its days as a frontier town. Note the garbage heap in left foreground

Man Shovels Garbage Into Cart; Woodcut
(Original Caption) "Street Sweepings." How New York got rid of its garbage. One horse wagon and garbage collector. Woodcut, 1888

Men Gathered in Bandit's Roost
Men gather in an alley called "Bandit's Roost" in Manhattan's Little Italy

Garbage Clean-Up; Carts Full Of Trash
(Original Caption) New York, NY: Garbage clean-up in downtown New York. Photograph, 1890'S

Man Searches Through Lg Outside Dump
(Original Caption) Undated-New York, New York- At these dump heaps many thousands of dollars are salvaged by a group of enterprising Italians

Sanitation Workers Lifting Garbage Can
(Original Caption) Sanitation workers lifting a garbage can into a dump truck. Undated photograph

Girl Hugging Stray Cat
A demonstration of how infantile paralysis spreads. A girl hugs a stray cat caught while feeding on garbage

James Cagney and Edward Woods in The Public Enemy
Bootlegger Tom Powers (James Cagney) and his pal Matt Doyle (Edward Woods) fire their guns from behind a garbage can in a scene from the 1931 gangster classic The Public Enemy

Horsedrawn Trash Cart Dumping In Street
(Original Caption) Philadelphia garbage removal paralyzed during the 1938 strike of sanitation workers. Photo shows a filled garbage truck being emptied in the street by protesting strikers

Woman Keeping Warm By Ashcan Fire
(Original Caption) 01/19/1938. New York City, NY: Orchard Street scene... a woman keeping warm with the aid of an ashcan fire

Policeman Arresting Black Striker
(Original Caption) Philadelphia, PA: Policeman collaring Negro striker in Philadelphia garbage workers walkout of October, 1938. (Original Caption)

Policeman Searching Through Debris in Mansion
(Original Caption) Patrolman John McLaughlin checks through the mess of junk found inside the Collyer mansion at 128th Street and Fifth Avenue

Low-Angle Of Incinerator Tower/Complex
(Original Caption) 6/17/84-Tokyo

Pile Of Garbage W/City Buildings In Back
(Original Caption) 7/12/1986-Philadelphia, PA- During day 12 of the municipal workers strike, garbage accumulates at this temporary dump site, as City Hall looms in the background

Man Hangs Strike Sign on Garbage Truck
(Original Caption) 7/19/1986-Philadelphia

Wilson Goode Watches Worker Shovel Trash
(Original Caption) 7/22/1986-Philadelphia

Barge Loaded with 3, 000 Tons of Garbage
(Original Caption) 4/18/1987- Grand Isle, LA- The barge loaded with 3, 000 tons of Long Island garbage, lies with its tug, moored to a Gulf of Medxico oil platform

Workers Inspecting Garbage On Barge
(Original Caption) 5/4/1987-Key West, FL- Federal environmental officials inspect the barge filled with 3, 000 tons of New York garbage, trying to determine if it is hazardous

Philadelphia Teen Strolling by Garbage
Teenager Michael Polidori strolls through his South Philadelphia neighborhood, covering his face from the stench of garbage laying in the streets from a strike

View Of Landfill Over Housing Developmen
(Original Caption) 10/7/90-Staten Island, NY:- Fresh Kills, the world's largest landfill, dwarfs the Village Green housing development

Poor Germans Look Thro Garbage Pile
(Original Caption) German potato gatherers: The poor of Berlin rumaging in refuse heaps. Undated photograph

Horse-Drawn Cart Being Filled W/Water
(Original Caption) Ca. 1900- An early street-cleaning sprinkling car with wooden tank being filled. Location unknown

Stream Polluted with Automotive and Household Waste
(Original Caption) Polluted water in Bronx, New York. Piles of household and automotive waste, including appliances, furniture, tires and scrap metal, block the flow of water in a stream

Open Ashcan Filled with Garbage
(Original Caption) View of an open ashcan filled with garbage. Undated photograoh

Ludlow Street, near Houston
(Original Caption) New York, New York: Unhygienic street conditions in Ludlow Street near Houston, New York City

Bad Street Sanitation

Illustration Of Wire Office Trash Basket
(Original Caption) Wire office basket. Line drawing. Undated Photo. BPA2 #3401

We Want Your Kitchen Waste Poster
(Original Caption) W.W.II Poster for Salvage: Pig at garbage can. "We want your kitchen waste. Keep it dry, free from glass, bones, tins, etc. It also feeds poultry

Drafting of the Declaration of Independence by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
DRAFTING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 1776. PAINTING BY J.L.G. FERRIS

Simon Rodia and His Watts Towers
(Original Caption) 3/27/1953-Los Angeles, California-Stamp collecting? Not for Simon Rodia

Demolition of World's Fair Grounds
(Original Caption) 1/4/1966-New York, New York- One big mess. That's the story of the World's Fair now that the tourists are gone and the demolition crews have taken over

John V. Lindsay Facing Citizens
(Original Caption) Mayor John V

Garbage Collector Sweeping Huge Pile of Trash
(Original Caption) 2/12/1968-New York, NY- Sanitation man Lorenzo De Francesco fights a battle against a mountain of garbage at a disposal plant here Feb. 12

Boy Kicking Trash at Dumpsters
(Original Caption) 1/23/1969-New Orleans, Louisiana- A small boy kicks a can onto the heap of garbage along Orleans St

Refuse Overflows a Trash Bin After Woodstock
(Original Caption) WHITE LAKE, NEW YORK: Refuse overflows a trash bin as the Aquarian Rock Explosion ends early August 18

Engineer W/Piles Of Reclaimed Waste
(Original Caption) 9/3/1971-Franklin, OH- Garbage is a source of raw materials at the Franklin recycling plant for municipal solid wastes

Reel Life
Elizabeth Taylor wears a full-lenght, pastel-dyed mink coat when she takes out the garbage

Excavation of Native American "Garbage"
Archaeologists excavate a recently discovered Native American garbage dump in Monk's Mound in Cahokia Mounds State Park. | Location: Washington Park, Illinois, USA

Sacheen Littlefeather at Oscars
Sacheen Littlefeather (born Marie Louise Cruz, 1946 - 2022) accepting the Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando for his role in "The Godfather"

Jay Gourley, a reporter for the weekly National Enquirer, who got in a flap with the Secret Service 7/8 when he removed garbage from in front of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's house

3 Uniformed Moonies Sweep Ny Street
(Original Caption) 5/25/76-New York, New York- Supporters of Sun Myung Moon, the Korean Evangelist and industrialist

Interior Of Recycling Plant
(Original Caption) 7/1/1977-Milwaukee, WI- At Milwaukee's Americology recycling plant

Man Piling Garbage
(Original Caption) 2/5/1979-London, England- Leicester Square, in the West End of London

Bull's Eye Trash Can
(Original Caption) 4/25/1980-Youngstown, OH: Maybe they better junk the whole idea. Or perhaps people need more practice to hit the bullseye

Woman Hauls Trash On Back & In Arms
(Original Caption) 8/17/80-Mexico City, Mexico- A woman is loaded down with usable items collected from some of Mexico City's 17.6 million pounds of garbage a day

Bag Lady on the Streets of New York
An elderly homeless woman walks down a sidewalk in New York City

Trash Piled Before New York Stock Exchange
(Original Caption) 12/7/1981-New York, New York- The private sanitation workers strike drags on, leaving the stately New York Stock Exchange

Mounds of Garbage on Park Avenue
Pedestrians walk past an eight-foot mound of garbage on a Manhattan sidewalk. Trash has piled up due to a ten-day-old garbage strike in the city

Workers Load Toxic Debris In Temporary Storage
Workers in Times Beach, Missouri, load debris possibly contaminated by dioxin into tractor-trailers while a judge examines a temporary injunction

Factory Spilling Toxic Waste
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Illustration of woman showing glass bottle and plastic packaging to boy and girl

Flea market, scrap iron, metal pieces

Illustration of girl throwing rubbish in bin

Illustration of garbage truck

Hamster (Cricetinae), eating a dried fig, lit by sunlight

Stacked bales of recyclable cardboard and paper at a sorting centre, Quebec, Canada

Pile of discarded metal straps at a scrap metal recycling centre, Quebec, Canada

Scrap tyre dump at the Adobe Buttes landfill site, Delta, Colorado, USA

Different coloured tubes and pipes in the 3 Maj shipyard in Rijeka, Croatia, Europe

Shipwreck on Little Curacao
Little Curacao is a very small uninhabited Island near Cura?ao, where this small oiltanker stranded in 1988

A shipwreck on the coast of Little Curacao
The shipwreck of an small oiltanker, that stranded here on Little Curacao. Built in 1964 and shipwrecked in 1988

Pomace Press
Marc, or pomace, is what remains of grapes when the fruit has been pressed for wine

Gravel filter
Illustration of a gravel filter with a barrels

Building The Pyramids
A pharaoh oversees the construction of a pyramid from atop a litter carried by slaves, Egypt, 640 AD. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Cross-section diagram of an average familys dustbin

Two yellow skips loaded onto red refuse truck, rear view

Dogs scavenging among rubbish

Smouldering cardboard box and bin

Illustration of boy placing newspaper in paper container, various other recycling containers nearby

Illustration of rubbish washed up on beach with seaweed

Looking into Mexican Favela housing on hillside
Looking into Mexico Favela housing on hillside at Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. Densely packed rudimentary houses in valley and up hillsides

A Rubber Glove And Debris That Has Washed Up On Ucluth Beach In The Wya Point Campground Near Ucluelet On Vancouver Island; British Columbia Canada

A Rubber Glove And Debris That Has Washed Up On Ucluth Beach In The Wya Point Campground Near Ucluelet On Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada

Tailings Ponds

Material for recycling

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