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Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

William Rathje

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William Rathje
Age: 66 †
Born: 1945
Born: July 1
Died: 2012
Died: May 24
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
South Bend
Indiana
William L. Rathje
W. L. Rathje
William Laurens Rathje
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Preventive
Reduction
Garbage
Environmental
Medicine
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Health

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Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.
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