2017

• Hoover, Elizabeth. (2017). The River is In Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community. University of Minnesota Press.
• Kiechle, M. A. (2017). Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America. University of Washington Press.
• Zimring, C. A. (2017). Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective. JHU Press.

2016

• Arnold, D. (2016). Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India. Cambridge University Press.
• Barnard, Alex. (2016). Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America. University of Minnesota Press.
• Bell, S. E. (2016). Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia. MIT Press.
• Blanc, P. D. (2016). Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon. Yale University Press.
• Cordner, A. (2016). Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health. Columbia University Press.
• Dini, R. (2016). Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan US
• Keeling, A., & Sandlos, J. (2016). Mining and communities in Northern Canada: history, politics, and memory. University of Calgary Press.
• Kimura, A. H. (2016). Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima. Duke University Press.
• Newman, R. S. (2016). Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present. Oxford University Press.
• Mukherjee, S. (2016). Surviving Bhopal: Dancing bodies, written texts, and oral testimonials of women in the wake of an industrial disaster. Springer.
• Reno, J. O. (2016). Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill. Univ of California Press.
• Sosna, D. (2016). Archaeologies of Waste: Encounters with the unwanted. Oxbow Books.
• Spelman, E. V. (2016). Trash Talks: Revelations in the Rubbish. Oxford University Press.
• Van Horssen, J. (2016). A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community. UBC Press.
• Wilhelm, J. (2016). Environment and Pollution in Colonial India: Sewerage Technologies Along the Sacred Ganges (Vol. 15). Routledge.
• Zimring, C. (2016). Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States. NYU Press.

2015

• Cirelli, C., & Florin, B. (2015). Sociétés urbaines et déchets. Éclairages internationaux. Presses Universitaires François Rabelais.
• Charvolin, F., Frioux, S., Kamoun, L., Mélard, F. and Roussel, I. (2015) Un air familier ? Sociohistoire des pollutions atmosphériques. Paris: Presses des Mines.
• Hawkins, G., Emily Potter and Kane Race. (2015). Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water. MIT Press.
• Malin, S. A. (2015). The price of nuclear power: uranium communities and environmental justice. Rutgers University Press.
• Morrison, Susan. (2015). The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter.  NY:  Palgrave Macmillan.
• Parikka, J. (2015). A Geology of Media. University of Minnesota Press.
• Voyles, Traci Brynne. (2015). Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country. University of Minnesota Press.

2014

• Bohme, S. R. (2014). Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle. Univ of California Press.
• Boscagli, M. (2014). Stuff Theory: Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
• Boudia, S., & Jas, N. (2014). Powerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World. Berghahn Books.
• Davis, F. R. (2014). Banned: a history of pesticides and the science of toxicology. Yale University Press.
• Evans, D. (2014). Food waste: home consumption, material culture and everyday life. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Fleming, J. R., & Johnson, A. (2014). Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective. University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Gordillo, G. R. (2014). Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction. Duke University Press.
• Guins, R. (2014). Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife. MIT Press.
• Little, P. C. (2014). Toxic town: IBM, pollution, and industrial risks. NYU Press.
• Schmidt, C. (2014). The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Sharan, A. (2014). In the city, out of place nuisance, pollution, and dwelling in Delhi, c.1850-2000. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Taylor, D. (2014). Toxic communities: Environmental racism, industrial pollution, and residential mobility. NYU Press.
• Viney, W. (2014). Waste: A Philosophy of Things. Bloomsbury Publishing.

2013

• Brown, K. L. (2013). Plutopia: Nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters. Oxford University Press, USA.
• Dietrich, A.S. (2013). The Drug Company Next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico. New York: New York University Press.
• Gabrys, J., Hawkins, G., & Michael, M. (Eds). 2013. Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic. Routledge.
• Krupar, Shiloh R. (2013). Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press.
• Lora-Wainwright, A. (2013). Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
• Markowitz, G., & Rosner, D. (2013). Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children. Univ of California Press.
• Markowitz, G., & Rosner, D. (2013). Deceit and denial: The deadly politics of industrial pollution. Univ of California Press.
• Nagle, Robin. (2013). Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Shostak, S. (2013). Exposed science: genes, the environment, and the politics of population health. University of California Press.
• Stoler, Ann Laura (Ed). (2013). Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. Duke University Press.
• Stokes, Raymond, Roman Koster, and Stephen Sambrook. (2013). The Business of Waste: Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the Present. Cambridge University Press.
• Walter-Toews, D. (2013) The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells us About Evolution, Ecology and a Sustainable Society. Toronto: ECW Press.

2012

• Baccini, P., & Brunner, P. H. (2012). Metabolism of the anthroposphere: analysis, evaluation, design. MIT Press.
• Burrell, J. (2012). Invisible users: Youth in the Internet cafés of urban Ghana. Mit Press.
• Campkin, B., & Cox, R. (2012). Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination. I.B.Tauris.
• Chen, M. Y. (2012) Animacies. Biopolitics, Racial Mattering and Queer Affect. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
• Foote, Stephanie, and Elizabeth Mazzolini (Eds). 2012. Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice. MIT Press.
• Hecht, G. (2012). Being nuclear: Africans and the global uranium trade. MIT Press.
• Mah, A. (2012). Industrial ruination, community, and place: landscapes and legacies of urban decline. University of Toronto Press.
• Vogel, S. A. (2012). Is it Safe?: BPA and the Struggle to Define the Safety of Chemicals. Univ of California Press.
• Vogel, D. (2012). The politics of precaution: regulating health, safety, and environmental risks in Europe and the United States. Princeton University Press.
• Zimring, Carl and William Rathje (eds). 2012. Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage. SAGE Publications.

2011

• Bardini, T. 2011. Junkware. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.
• Dalrymple, T. 2011. Litter: How Other People’s Rubbish Shapes Your Life. London, Gibson Square Books.
• Falasca-Zamponi, S. 2011. Waste and Consumption: Capitalism, the environment, and the life of things. New York, NY, Routledge.
• Farley, P. and M. S. Roberts. 2011. Edgelands: Journeys into England’s true wilderness. London, Jonathan Cape.
• Gabrys, Jennifer. 2011. Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics. Michigan, University of Michigan Press.
• Harrison, Jill Lindsey. 2011. Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.
• Jorgensen, Finn Arne. 2011. Making a Green Machine: The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
• Korsmeyer, Carolyn. 2011. Savoring disgust: The foul and the fair in aesthetics. New York, Oxford University Press.
• MacBride, Samantha. 2011. Recycling Reconsidered The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States. MIT Press.
• Nixon, R. (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press.
• Schneider, Daniel. 2011. Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem. MIT Press.
• Sellers, C., & Melling, J. (Eds.). (2011). Dangerous trade: histories of industrial hazard across a globalizing world. Temple University Press.
• Shamasunder, B. (2011). Body Burden Politics: How Biomonitoring Data is Influencing Chemicals Governance in the US. University of California, Berkeley.
• Smith, V. and Wellcome Collection. 2011. Dirt: The filthy reality of everyday life. London, Profile.
• Waldman, L. (2011). The Politics of Asbestos: Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest. Routledge.
• Walker, B. L. (2011). Toxic archipelago: a history of industrial disease in Japan. University of Washington Press.
• Whiteley, Gillian. 2011. Junk: Art and the politics of trash. London New York, NY, I. B. Tauris; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan.
• Young, Sera L. 2011. Craving Earth: Understanding pica, the urge to eat clay, starch, ice, and chalk. New York; Chichester, Columbia University Press.

2010

• Alaimo, S. 2010. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Bennet, J. 2010. Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things. Duke University Press: London.
• Brouwer, J., A. Mulder, et al., Eds. 2010. The Politics of the Impure. Rotterdam, V2_Publishing.
• Dürr, Eveline, and Rivke Jaffe. 2010. Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices. New York, Berghahn Books.
• Frost, Randy and Gayle Steketee. 2010. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Kelley, Victoria. 2010. Soap and Water: Cleanliness, dirt and the working classes in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. London ; New York, I. B. Tauris.
• Langston, N. (2010). Toxic bodies: Hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES. Yale University Press.
• Lerner, S. 2010. Sacrifice zones: the front lines of toxic chemical exposure in the United States. MIT Press.
• Oreskes, N. and E. M. Conway (2010). Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. New York, Bloomsbury Press.
• Molotch, Harvey. L. and Laura Norén. 2010. Toilet: Public restrooms and the politics of sharing. New York, New York University Press.
• Pye, Gillian (ed). 2010. Trash Culture: Objects and obsolescence in cultural perspective. Oxford ; New York, Peter Lang.
• Rootes, C and Leonard, L. (eds.) 2010. Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure. Routledge.
• Selin, Henrik. 2010. Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management. MIT Press.
• Serres, Michel. 2010. Malfeasance: Appropriation Through Pollution? Standford University Press.

2005-2009

• Aguiar, Luis L. M. and Herod, Andrew (eds). 2006. The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy.Basil Blackwell: Oxford.
• Allen, Michelle. 2008. Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London. Athens, Ohio University Press.
• Ashenburg, K. 2007. The Dirt on Clean: An unsanitized history. New York, North Point Press.
• Barnes, D. S. (2006). The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs. JHU Press.
• Beck, John. 2009: Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
• Biow, D. 2006. The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
• Black, M. and Fawcett, B. 2008. The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis. New York: Earthscan.
• Brown, K. M. 2009. Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in early America. New Haven, Yale University Press.
• Brown, Phil. 2007. Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. Columbia University Press.
• Burns, Loree Griffins. 2007. Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
• Burnstein, Daniel Eli. 2006. Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City. Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press.
• Campkin, B. and R. Cox. 2007. Dirt: New geographies of cleanliness and contamination. London, Tauris.
• Checker, M. (2005). Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town. New York: New York University Press.
• Clark, C. 2005. The Great Stink. Orlando, Harcourt.
• Cockayne, E. 2007. Hubbub: Filth, noise, and stench in England, 1600-1770. New Haven ; London, Yale University Press.
• Cohen, William and Ryan Johnson. 2005. Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.
• Dauvergne, Peter. 2008. The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.
• Davies, Anna. 2007. The Geographies of Garbage Governance: Interventions, Interactions, and Outcomes. Aldershot, Burlington Ashgate Pub. Co.
• Ebbesmeyer, Curtis and Eric Scigliano. 2009. Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How one man’s obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science. New York, NY, Smithsonian Books : Collins.
• Edelstein, Michael. 2003. Contaminated Communities: Coping With Residential Toxic Exposure. Second Edition edition. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
• Edensor, Tim. 2005. Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality. London: Berg Publishing.
• Eveleigh, D. J. 2008. Privies and Waterclosets. Princes Risborough, Shire.
• Faber, D. (2008). Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Ferrell, Jeff. 2006. Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging. New York: New York University Press.
• Fortun, K. (2009). Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, disaster, new global orders. University of Chicago Press.
• Frickel, S. (2004). Chemical consequences: Environmental mutagens, scientist activism, and the rise of genetic toxicology. Rutgers University Press.
• High, Steven and David Lewis. 2007. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization. Cornell University Press.
• King, William Davies. 2008. Collections of Nothing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• George, Rose. 2008. The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters. Metropolitan Books.
• Gille, Zsuzsa. 2007. From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press.
• Girling, Richard. 2005. Rubbish!: Dirt on our hands and crisis ahead. London, Eden Project Books.
• Grossman, Elizabeth. 2006. High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health. Washington, Island Press : Shearwater Books.
• Grossman, E. (2009). Chasing Molecules: Poisonous products, human health, and the promise of green chemistry. Washington, DC, Island Press/Shearwater Books.
• Halliday, Stephan. 2007. The Great Filth: The war against disease in Victorian England. Stroud, Sutton.
• Hamlin, Christopher. 2009. Cholera: The biography. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Hawkins, Gay. 2006. The Ethics of Waste: How we Relate to Rubbish. Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Jensen, Derrick and Aric McBay. 2009. What We Leave Behind. New York, Seven Stories Press.
• Lewis, Mindy. 2009. Dirt: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press.
• Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod, editors. 2006. The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy. Basil Blackwell: Oxford. [Issue published simultaneously as a special issue of Antipode, 38.3: 425-666.]
• Macfarlane, A., & Ewing, R. C. (Eds.). (2006). Uncertainty underground: Yucca Mountain and the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. MIT Press.
• Medina, M. 2007. The World’s Scavengers: Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production. Plymouth: AltaMira Press.
• Morrison, Susan. 2008. Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred filth and Chaucer’s fecopoetics. New York, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Murphy, M. (2006). Sick building syndrome and the problem of uncertainty: Environmental politics, technoscience, and women workers. Duke University Press.
• Nash, L. L. (2006). Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge. Univ of California Press.
• O’Brien, Martin. 2007. A Crisis of Waste?: Understanding the Rubbish Society. New York, Routledge.
• Orlando, Francesco. 2006. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures. Yale University Pres.
• Patton, K. 2007. The sea can wash away all evils. Modern marine pollution and the ancient cathartic ocean. Columbia university press: New York.
• Pellow, David N. 2007. Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Pezzullo, Phaedra. 2007. Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice. Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press.
• Rogers, Heather. 2005. Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. New York; London, New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company.
• Royte, Elizabeth. 2005. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash. New York, Little, Brown.
• Scandura, Jani. 2007. Down in the Dumps: place, modernity, American Depression. Duke University Press.
• Scanlan, John. 2005. On Garbage. London, Reaktion Books.
• Smith, Virgina. 2007. Clean: A history of personal hygiene and purity. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Stuart, Tristam. 2009. Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. W. W. Norton & Company.
• Sze, Julie. 2006. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. MIT Press.
• Tang, K. and J. Yeoh. 2008. WASTEnomics. London, Middlesex University Press.
• Thomson, V. E. (2009). Garbage in, garbage out: solving the problems with long-distance trash transport. University of Virginia Press.
• Van Wyck, Peter C. 2005. Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press.
• Vostral, S. L. (2008). Under wraps: A history of menstrual hygiene technology. Lexington Books.
• Walker, J. S. (2009). The road to Yucca Mountain: the development of radioactive waste policy in the United States. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Wood, Pamela J. 2005. Dirt: Filth and decay in a new world arcadia. Auckland, N.Z., Auckland University Press.
• Wright, M.W. 2006. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism. New York: Routledge.
• Yablon, Nick. 2009. Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Zimring, Carl. 2005. Cash for your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press.

2000-2004

• Aftalion, F. (2001). A history of the international chemical industry. Chemical Heritage Foundation.
• Allen, B. L. (2003). Uneasy alchemy: citizens and experts in Louisiana’s chemical corridor disputes. MIT Press.
• Alley, K. D. (2002). On the Banks of the Gaṅgā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River. University of Michigan Press.
• Amato, J. A. 2000. Dust: A history of the small and the invisible. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press.
• Anderson, B. (2000). Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Botha, Ted. 2004. Mongo: Adventures in Trash. New York, Bloomsbury.
• Bullard, R. D. (2000). Dumping in Dixie: Race, class, and environmental quality (Vol. 3). Westview Press Boulder, CO.
• Cole, L. W., & Foster, S. R. (2001). From the ground up: Environmental racism and the rise of the environmental justice movement. NYU Press.
• Davis, D. (2003). When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution. Basic Books.
• Gregson, Nicky, and Louise Crewe. 2003. Second-hand Cultures. Cornwall, PMG Books.
• Hawkins, Gay and Stephen Muecke. 2003. Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value. Oxford, Rowman & Littlefield.
• Holmes, Hannah. 2001. The Secret Life of Dust: From the cosmos to the kitchen counter, the big consequences of little things. New York, Wiley.
• Klaver, Elizabeth (ed). 2004. Images of the Corpse: From the Renaissance to cyberspace. Madison, Wis. ; London, University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press.
• Kroll-Smith, S., & Floyd, H. H. (2000). Bodies in protest: Environmental illness and the struggle over medical knowledge. NYU Press.
• Laporte, Dominique. 2000. History of Shit. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.
• Longhurst, R. 2001. Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries, London: Routledge.
• McDonough, William and Michael Braungart. 2002. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things. New York, North Point Press.
• Menninghaus, Winfried. 2003. Disgust: the Theory and History of a Strong Sensation. State University of New York Press.
• Miller, Benjamin. 2000. Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York : the last two hundred years. New York, Four Walls Eight Windows.
• O’Neill, Kate. 2000. Waste Trading among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regulation. MIT Press.
• Pellow, David N. 2002. Garbage Wars: The struggle for environmental justice in Chicago. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.
• Petryna, A. (2003). Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Shove, Elizabeth. 2003. Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience. Oxford, Berg Publishers.
• Sivulka, Juliann. 2001. Stronger Than Dirt: A cultural history of advertising personal hygiene in America, 1875-1940. Amherst, N.Y., Humanity Books.
• Strasser, S. (2000). Waste and want: a social history of trash. Macmillan.
• Troesken, W. (2004). Water, race, and disease. MIT Press.
• Walker, J. S. (2000). Permissible dose: a history of radiation protection in the twentieth century. Univ of California Press.

1990s

• Ackerman, Frank. 1997. Why Do We Recycle: Markets, Values, and Public Policy. Washington, D.C., Island Press.
• Alexander, Judd. 1993. In Defense of Garbage. Westport, Conn., Praeger.
• Bullard, Robert. 1994. Dumping in Dixie: Race, class, and environmental quality, 2nd edn. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
• Colborn, T., D. Dumanoski, et al. (1996). Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?: A Scientific Detective Story. New York, Dutton.
• Colten, Craig and Peter Skinner. 1996. The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste Before EPA. Austin, University of Texas Press.
• Duffy, John. 1990. The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health. Urbana, University of Illinois Press.
• Erikson, K. (1995). A new species of trouble: The human experience of modern disasters. WW Norton & Company.
• Gandy, M. 1994. Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste. New York: St. Martin’s Press
• Hamilton, J., & Viscusi, W. K. (1999). Calculating risks?: the spatial and political dimensions of hazardous waste policy. MIT Press.
• Hamlin, Christopher. 1990. A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain. Berkeley, University of California Press.
• Halliday, Stehpan. 1999. The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of the Victorian capital. Stroud, Sutton.
• Hoy, Suellen. 1995. Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness. New York, Oxford University Press.
• Kuletz, Valerie. 1998. The Tainted Desert: Environmental Ruin in the American West. New York: Routledge.
• Logan, W. B. 1995. Dirt: The ecstatic skin of the earth. New York, Riverhead Books.
• Lynch, Kevin and Michael Southworth. 1990. Wasting away. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books.
• Markowit, Gerald, and David Rosner. 1994. Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton University Press.
• Mikkelsen, E. J., Phil Brown. (1997). No safe place: Toxic waste, leukemia, and community action. Univ of California Press.
• Miller, William Ian. 1997. The Anatomy of Disgust. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
• Murray, Robin. 1999. Creating Wealth from Waste. London, Demos.
• Perry, Stuart. 1998. Collecting Garbage: Dirty Work, Clean Jobs, Proud People. Transaction Publishers.
• Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. 1992. Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage. New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers.
• Reid, Donald. 1991. Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and representations. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
• Reich, Michael. 1991. Toxic Politics: Responding to Chemical Disasters. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Sibley, D. 1995. Geographies of Exclusion: Society and Difference in the West. New York: Routledge.
• Sellers, C. C. (1997). Hazards of the job: from industrial disease to environmental health science. Univ of North Carolina Press.
• Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (1993). Burying uncertainty: risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste. Univ of California Press.
• Strasser, Susan. 1999. Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. New York, Metropolitan Books.
• Tarr, Joel. 1996. The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. Akron, Ohio, University of Akron press.
• Tekin, Lattice. 1996. Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. New York: Marion Boyars.
• Ticktin H. 1992. Origins of the Crisis in the USSR: Essays on the Political Economy of a Disintegrating System. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe.
• Wynne, Brian. 1987. Risk Management and Hazardous Waste: Implementation and the Dialectics of Credibility. Springer London, Limited.

1980s

• Commission for Racial Justice United Church of Christ. 1987. “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites.” Public Data Access, Inc.
• Corbin, Alain. 1986. The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
• Douglas, Mary. 1984. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London, Ark Paperbacks.
• Kristeva, Julia. 1982. Powers of Horror: An essay on abjection. New York, Columbia University Press.
• Melosi, Martin. 1980. Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930. Austin, University of Texas Press.
• Melosi, Martin. 1981. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment: 1880-1980. College Station, TX, Texas A&M University Press.
• Rathje, W. L., & Ritenbaugh, C. K. (Eds.). (1984). Household Refuse Analysis: Theory, Methods, and Applications in Social Science. SAGE.
• Wynne, Brian. 1987. Risk Management and Hazardous Waste: Implementation and the Dialectics of Credibility. Springer London, Limited.

1970s

• Thompson, Michael. 1979. Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value. Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press.

1960s

• Packard, Vance. 1960. The Waste Makers. New York, D. McKay Co.

19th century

• Griscom, John. 1845. The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of New York. New York, Harper & Brothers.
• Kallet, A., & Schlink, F. J. (1933). 100,000,000 guinea pigs: Dangers in everyday foods, drugs, and cosmetics. Vanguard Press.
• Riis, Jacob. 1890. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. New York: Penguin.