Collections and Transfer

A giant drinking glass, a deer and a large dinosaur roam the streets of Yonkers, N.Y., three times each week on garbage collection days. With the exception...

The Cover Up

By Bailey Webb

With most local governments now requiring that haulers cover their roll-off boxes during transport, choosing a tarping system is an important undertaking....

Bargain Bin

By Chaz Miller

Quick, which is hte least expensive: natural gas, heating oil, electricity, cell phone service, cable TV or your local trash service? The answer, of course,...

Ballpark Figures

By Barry Shanoff

Despite allegations aplenty, a shortfall in proof spelled defeat for a waste firm that saw itself being jerked around by the District of Columbia government....

All Aboard!

By Patricia-Anne Tom

For years, rail waste operations have chugged along with little fanfare. But as landfills are located farther afield and the cost of moving waste rises,...

Green Your Plate

Stephen Ursery

Meredith Grey, the whiney and perpetually unhappy Seattle surgeon who is the eponymous protagonist of the hit television series Grey's Anatomy, may soon...

Mountain Grown

By Kim A. O'Connell

As former Police officers and SWAT team members in El Paso County, Colo. the heart of Rocky Mountain country Tommy Coates and Ken Larsen knew the streets...

Automatic for the People

Editor's Note: The following is a first-person account of Goodrich, Texas-based Pro Star Waste's experiences with a fully automated collection system,...

Transfer Stations 101

For many waste collection companies, the need to locate, construct and operate a transfer station is becoming more obvious and important to their ability...

Fueling Headaches

By Kim A. O'Connell

Until this fall, the rates for residential trash collection in central California's Merced County had not changed in nine years. Beginning in December,...

Butting In

Steven Averett, Associate Editor

Few sights are as discouraging as pulling up to a stoplight and looking down into a gutter choked with spent cigarette butts. And yet studies show that...

Access Granted

By Paul Kilduff

For independent haulers, competing with larger, publicly traded firms for the accounts of national chain stores always has been a concern. Retailers such...

Crunch Time

Steven Averett Associate Editor

Officials in Santa Cruz, California, are proud of their vibrant downtown district. Lined with movie theaters, restaurants and shops, the area is a magnet...

The Charlotte Way

By Michael Fickes

WAYMAN PEARSON joined Charlotte, N.C.'s Solid Waste Services Department (SWSD) in the early 1990s, assuming the unusual title of key business executive....

Going Commercial

By Lynn Merrill

Considering the profit margins that they routinely offer, commercial waste collection accounts are highly sought after by haulers. The contracts often...

Ideal Idle Idea

Kristen Simpson

With fuel prices spiraling upward faster than you can say every refuse hauler is scouting for ways to achieve better fuel efficiency. Abilene, Texas,...

Under the Covers

By Lynn Merrill

You know you've got to cover that waste. How you do it is the question. Most jurisdictions now require haulers to cover their roll-off boxes before carrying...

Making Its Mark

by Kim A. O'Connell

On a Wednesday morning in July, Scott Eden, president and CEO of EnviroSolutions Inc. (ESI Waste), sat at a small table in his Chantilly, Va., office...