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George Waring  

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  • Col. George Edwin Waring Jr.'s career as a sanitation engineer bridged the primitive waste collection and disposal practices of the 19th century and the sophisticated, technologically intensive methods of the 20th century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Waring, George]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-T4766S4K-V

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