Memo Concerning The Removal And Disposal Of Town Refuse C

Author : Rudolph Hering
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ISBN 13 : 9781332242818
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Collection and Disposal of Municipal Refuse (Classic Reprint) written by Rudolph Hering and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Collection and Disposal of Municipal Refuse The purpose of this book is to record and discuss the various experiences in the disposition of municipal refuse. Other books have been written on this subject, or on parts of it, as in the United States by Morse, by Parsons, and by Venable; and in England by Maxwell and by Goodrich; but there seemed to be room for a more comprehensive survey of the subject in the light of later experiences. There also seemed to be a need for stating more fully than done heretofore the fundamental principles relating to house treatment, collection, and final disposal. Such statements may be helpful, particularly as private interests sometimes compete with public interests, and as both should be identical when considering the general benefits to the community. The present book has been in hand for the last ten years, at intervals between other engineering work, and has required more labor, correspondence, inspection, inquiry, and consideration than was anticipated. This was due mainly to the desire of the authors to offer, not only a record of general principles, but also of present practice resulting from experience, so that it might be helpful to both designing and operating engineers, in securing efficiency and economy in a branch of public service which in America is still undergoing development, principally in methods of disposal. The information presented has been verified as far as practicable. Although many data were estimated, or averaged, and some are based only on judgment, it is hoped that their inclusion may still be of service, and be the means of encouraging the collection and recording of more accurate statistics. Some of the information in city reports has little meaning to outsiders, mainly because it is not reduced to unit measures, such as quantities per capita per annum, etc., and to those which are independent of wages, population, and variable bases. Therefore, such reports do not allow of comparison with data reported from other cities, and do not show the relative effects of local conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.