London's Rubbish

The skyline of Victorian London was dominated by sinister mounds of rubbish, graphically described in Dickens''s novel Our Mutual Friend. Surprisingly these dust mounds were where hundreds of so called running or flying dustmen made a meager living. Working in the open air in all weathers, amid the dust and smell, they separated out the refuse, selling much of it on, in an early form of recycling....