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Timeline of waste management

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| 1842 || General || Publication || British {{w|Social reformer}}, {{w|Edwin Chadwick}} publishes report ''The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population'' in which he argues for the importance of adequate waste removal and management facilities to improve the health and wellbeing of the city's population.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report...from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain |location=London |year=1842 |pages=369-372 |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html |last=Chadwick |first=Edwin}} via {{cite web |author=Laura Del Col |publisher=The Victorian Web |title=Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions |date=11 October 2002 |accessdate=11 August 2017}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1848 || [[w:Environmental impact of the petroleum industry|Petroleum industry waste]] | | Waste source emergence || The [[w:petroleum industry#History|petroleum industry]], both production and [[w:Petroleum refinery|refining]], begins with the first oil works in {{w|Scotland}}, when chemist [[w:James Young (Scottish chemist)|James Young]] sets up a tiny business refining the crude oil. This marks the beginning of petroleum derivatives.<ref name=russell>{{cite book | last = Russell | first = Loris S. | authorlink = | title = A Heritage of Light: Lamps and Lighting in the Early Canadian Home | publisher = University of Toronto Press | year = 2003 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-8020-3765-8}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1853 || General || Organization (for-profit) || {{w|Veolia}} is founded in {{w|France}}. It operates [[w:water resource management|water management]], {{w|waste management}} and energy services.<ref>{{cite web |title=The history of Veolia: 1853-1900 |url=https://www.veolia.com/en/veolia-group/profile/history/1853-1900 |website=veolia.com |accessdate=12 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Strauss |first1=Michael J. |title=Hostile Business and the Sovereign State: Privatized Governance, State Security and International Law |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=fnx_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT342&lpg=PT342&dq=1853+Veolia&source=bl&ots=Oa4S1yQzZU&sig=ACfU3U0n2Kh-MFYXIkplKQhYtkCJLnyI7Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUsP38xMznAhWzK7kGHRKNAUsQ6AEwDHoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=1853%20Veolia&f=false}}</ref> || {{w|France}}
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