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Benjamin Franklin uses slaves to carry the waste of Philadelphia downstream.
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Junk dealers in Reno, Nevada, scavenge personal belongings from trails. Pioneers abandoned the items on the trails.
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Two brothers manufacture the first commercial synthetic plastic. It replaces metal and wood in items such as combs.
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Frank Woolworth opens the first five and dime store in Utica, New York. He displays the products on open counters, so the customers can feel and see the products.
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Around 180 garbage incinerators are built in the United States.
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King C. Gillette was a traveling salesman who invented razors with disposable blades.
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New York City requires residents to separate food waste, ash, and dry trash. They also want the police to enforce this.
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Colonel George Waring was New York's Street Cleaning Commissioner, and he organized the country's first waste sorting plant for recycling.
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Hills Brothers Coffee is the first to put vacuum packed coffee on the market.
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The nation's first aluminum recycling plants open in Cleveland and Chicago.
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New York City uses a garbage incinerator to generate electricity for the Williamsburg Bridge.
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The juvenile sanitation leagues become popular in cities around the country.
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During this time, filling in wetlands with trash becomes a popular disposal method.
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Clarence Saunders opens the first supermarket. Self service packaging increases the selection for customers. The pre packaged food lowers the cost of it.
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Kimberly Clark makes disposable sanitary pads.
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The developing of the compactor garbage trucks increase the vehicle amount of containment.
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Paperback books are sold for 25 cents.
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency is set up.
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Millions of people rally on Earth Day.
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This Act is enacted to restore and maintain the physical and chemical purity of the nation's waters.
