I'll be out camping this weekend, and one of the worst parts of this is always the need to use honey buckets (aka porta-potties or porta-johns). Reading this article, though, reminds me not to take the sanitation that we have in daily life (or even the honey buckets) for granted. While this article focuses more on trash collection than human waste, it nonetheless is a reminder of how significant the challenges of managing waste can be.
"A Filthy History: When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trash" by Hunter Oatman-Stanford
Published in Collectors Weekly, June 24, 2013
Eric
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