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	''Photo: BANC PIC 1905.17500.10:436--ALB, Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.''		''Photo: BANC PIC 1905.17500.10:436--ALB, Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.''

	By the late 1870s, garbage collection was becoming more organized. Scavengers carted their unusable waste to the [[The Dumps at Mission Creek\|Mission Bay waterfront]] at Sixth and Berry Streets, San Francisco’s first centralized dumpsite. By the 1880s, 300 wagonloads of waste were deposited here each day. By 1895, they had filled in 20 acres of Mission Bay.		By the late 1870s, garbage collection was becoming more organized. Scavengers carted their unusable waste to the [[The Dumps at Mission Creek\|Mission Bay waterfront]] at Sixth and Berry Streets, San Francisco’s [[Dumpville\|first centralized dumpsite]]. By the 1880s, 300 wagonloads of waste were deposited here each day. By 1895, they had filled in 20 acres of Mission Bay.

	The most pungent waste of Victorian-Era San Francisco was offal—the remains of livestock after butchers cut away the meat, bones, and other useful parts. San Franciscans ate lots of meat, but nobody wanted the stench of rotting animal carcasses nearby. The slaughterhouses had to be close to the city, in order to deliver meat quickly before it spoiled (there was no refrigeration), yet far enough away to minimize complaints. A location with tidal water flows, to carry away the offal twice daily, was ideal. Slaughterhouses clustered first at Mission Bay, and starting in 1868, at a similar tidal area three miles farther south, [[Butchertown's Beginnings\|“Butchertown”]].		The most pungent waste of Victorian-Era San Francisco was offal—the remains of livestock after butchers cut away the meat, bones, and other useful parts. San Franciscans ate lots of meat, but nobody wanted the stench of rotting animal carcasses nearby. The slaughterhouses had to be close to the city, in order to deliver meat quickly before it spoiled (there was no refrigeration), yet far enough away to minimize complaints. A location with tidal water flows, to carry away the offal twice daily, was ideal. Slaughterhouses clustered first at Mission Bay, and starting in 1868, at a similar tidal area three miles farther south, [[Butchertown's Beginnings\|“Butchertown”]].

Ccarlsson: Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by David D. Schmidt, 2026'' ''An excerpt from the book, [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History''], by David D. Schmidt (Backcountry Press, 2025). Image:TrashwagonSFEarly1900s.jpg '''The early days of trash pickup, or scavenging, in San Francisco, c. 1900.''' ''Photo: courtesy David D. Sch..."

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Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by David D. Schmidt, 2026'' ''An excerpt from the book, [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History''], by David D. Schmidt (Backcountry Press, 2025). Image:TrashwagonSFEarly1900s.jpg '''The early days of trash pickup, or scavenging, in San Francisco, c. 1900.''' ''Photo: courtesy David D. Sch..."

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