1885 – First garbage incinerator in the U.S.
Reilly of the U. S. Army built the first garbage incinerator in the United States on Governor’s Island, N. Y. New York City’s first incinerator, the first in the nation, was erected on Governors Island in 1885, and over the next century, incinerators burned much of the city’s waste. By the 1960’s, the city was…