Collection and Disposal of Municipal Refuse (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Rudolph Hering

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332242812 ISBN 13: 9781332242818

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A practical, comprehensive guide to how cities collect, treat, and dispose of waste.

This book compiles what engineers and city leaders need to know about municipal refuse. It covers the major methods of collection, house treatment, final disposal, and the costs and specifications behind each approach. Rich with data and examples, it helps readers compare strategies, plan projects, and form sound opinions on waste management.

- Learn how different disposal methods work in practice, from sorting and incineration to land-fill and beyond.
- Understand how costs are estimated, recorded, and justified for public projects.
- See how house treatment, street collection, and transportation fit into a city’s waste system.
- Explore historical and international perspectives to inform present-day decisions.

Ideal for readers involved in urban planning, civil engineering, public administration, or students studying municipal services, logistics, and environmental management.

About this title

Product Description

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332242812
• ISBN 13: 9781332242818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 671