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Victorian Recycling: The Dust‑Heap Economy

August 6, 2026August 7, 2026
Victorian Recycling: The Dust‑Heap Economy

text by Magdalena Pypeć Old Harmon in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend amassed an enormous fortune as a dust contractor, as one of the characters explains: “On his own small estate the growling old vagabond threw up his own mountain range, like an old volcano, and its geological formation was Dust. Coal-dust, vegetable-dust, bone-dust, crockery-dust, rough […]

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