Chemical and Nuclear Waste Disposal: Problems and Solutions

James P. Murray, Joseph J. Harrington and Richard Wilson

Cato Journal, 1982, vol. 2, issue 2, 565-606

Abstract: The problems of waste disposal have always been with us. In biblical times, the residents of Jerusalem always burnt their wastes inthehideousValeofGehenna.Thisgavewaytoburialofwasteor sometimes dumping it in shallow oceans. All too often the sewage pipes of the seaside towns did not even take the waste to the low tide mark; and the use of the deep oceans as a disposal site has been almost unknown...

Date: 1982
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