Collections and Transfer

Some Assembly REQUIRED

By Sean Kilcarr

Streamlining the spec'ing process to put together more affordable trucks...

Automation by the Numbers

By Waste Age

Waste Age's recent survey uncovers the benefits and challenges of automated collection...

Best Overall - City of Philadelphia

For Philadelphia, recognized as the City of Murals, there was an obvious solution when it was searching for a way to draw attention to its recycling efforts: Murals on the city's collection vehicles....

Best Front Loader - Abitibi Consolidated, Recycling Division Houston

While many dogs have been trained to retrieve the paper from the end of the driveway, Abitibi's Paper Retriever knows how to take that paper to the MRF....

Best Side Loader - City of El Paso, Texas, Environmental Services

For many people, the notion that blue bins are meant to hold recyclables is old hat. But that familiarity is absent in communities that have never had residential recycling....

Best Rear Loader - Texas Disposal Systems Buda, Texas

Waste and wildlife? It's not an obvious connection, even after you've seen one of Austin, Texas-based Texas Disposal Systems' (TDS) trucks....

Best Container Delivery Vehicle - E.O.M.S. Recycling West Bridgewater, Mass.

If storks can deliver babies, why not containers? That's the thinking E.O.M.S. Recycling of West Bridgewater, Mass., employed when they placed the bird on the company's container delivery truck....

Driver Classes Announced

By Chris Carlson

The National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA), Washington, has announced the cities and dates for the driver training sessions, which will...

Rock n Roll-Off

By Barry Shanoff

Court OKs exclusive franchise to haul construction waste. ...

Old School

by Bruce A. Hooker

Editor's note: This article continues the driver safety series that appeared in the April, June, September and November issues. Previous articles focused...

Natural Leader

By Bailey Webb

An exotic game ranch, a line of organic products and philanthropic projects have helped Texas Disposal Systems earn local respect. ...

Mommy Greenest, A Grave Situation

By Steven Averett

Mommy Greenest For countless eons, moms have been nagging us to take the trash out, so it should come as little surprise that they're also among the most...

Greening Their Fleets

By Sean Kilcarr

Haulers pursue environmental initiatives while minimizing impact on the bottom line....

Collection Detection

By Deanna Hart, Assistant Editor

Waste Management drivers help fight crime....

Automation by the Numbers

By Waste Age

Waste Age’s new survey uncovers the benefits and challenges of automated collection. ...

Country Roads

by Russ Short

Rural roadside waste collection poses unique challenges....

For the Ladies

By Nancy Bretas

The EIA Women’s Council helps foster diversity in the industry....

Beautiful Beasts

By Steven Averett and Chris Carlson

These trucks make dirty work look good....

HAUL TALK

By Steven Averett

Up in Smoke When cultivating and trafficking marijuana, it behooves the grower to pay attention to the little things so as to avoid detection by the authorities...

Pedal Off the Metal

By Chris Carlson

The National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA), Washington, launched a radio campaign in January urging motorists to drive defensively near...