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Timeline of waste management

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| 1965 || {{w|Solid waste}} || Technology || The first [[w:Automated vacuum collection|vacuum system]] for household waste is installed in the new residential district of Ör-Hallonbergen, {{w|Sweden}}.<ref name="swe"/> || Sweden
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| 1966 || Coal waste || Waste disposal incident || The {{w|Aberfan disaster}} occurs in {{w|Aberfan}}, {{w|Wales}}, when 300,000 cubic yards of coal sludge buries a Welsh primary school, and 19 houses. Hundreds of people try to dig the school children, teachers, and people who lived nearby, from out of the wreckage, but 144 people die.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inside the 1966 Aberfan Disaster, one of Britain's most tragic mining disasters, where a collapsing mountain of coal waste killed 116 school children |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/haunting-photos-tragic-aberfan-disaster-1966-2019-11 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1968 || General || Organization (for-profit) || American company [[w:Waste Management (corporation)|Waste Management]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=Waste Management Inc. |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2898.html |website=encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org |accessdate=12 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WASTE GIANT TOSSING OUT ITS NAME |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-01-19-9303163644-story.html |website=chicagotribune.com |accessdate=12 February 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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