The larger research effort that followed has resulted in two additional major articles which are pending review at a university publication.
One covers the broad history of solid waste in the United States, and then focuses on the eight counties of South Jersey, using Burlington County as a more detailed example. Politics, science, government, financing and public attitudes are explored, making use of numerous newspaper accounts, books and articles on the subject, as well as personal exploration.
A companion article examines the history and mysteries of the Tuckerton Mound, a massive pile of clam shells on the salt marshes south of Tuckerton, NJ, off of Great Bay Boulevard (Seven Bridges Road), created by early indigenous visitors over a period of centuries dating back at least 1500 years ago. The pile is about 100 feet long, 50 wide and 10 high, with a few hardy trees now growing on the thin layer of soil that accumulated on it. Long a subject of study by archaeologists, it represents one of New Jersey’s oldest remaining “garbage dumps.”
Copies of these two articles, or derivatives thereof, will be made available here later.