Charles C. Johnson, administrator of the new Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service of the Public Health Service, says “growing mountains of garbage and trash threaten to bury us in our own waste products.” They already are hurting our health. They have destroyed large areas of living space which nature had allotted the creatures of the wild. This is a file photo of a debris-littered street in Washington, D.C.

United Press International · [ca. August 1969]

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