Time to Automate 

By Michael Fickes

IT CAN TAKE YEARS TO FIGURE OUT the best way to implement a new technology. While desktop computer technology was invented in 1947, it took 30 years to...

Rural Readiness 

By William Worrell

IN RURAL AREAS, where populations are less dense, garbage collection stops are few and far between. The challenge for local governments is to develop...

Thinking Outside the Can 

By Michael Fickes

THE WASTE TRUCK SALESMAN was dumbfounded. I've never seen a city collect bulk waste every day, he said. Apparently, he had never been to Hampton, Va.,...

Dealing in WASTE 

By Morgan Lord

LAS VEGAS, THE ENTERTAINMENT capital of the world, lures 35 million people to its luxurious hotels, first-class restaurants, world-class gaming and dazzling...

Pumps and Quiet 

Wes Jackson OEM Applications Engineer Mobile Hydraulic Systems Parker Hannifin/Hydraulic Pump Divisi

WHILE IT CAN'T DO ANYTHING about the brisk city breezes, National Waste Services, a Chicago-based division of Allied Waste Industries, is helping Windy...

Trash Collection Ergonomics 

Kate McGinn XL Specialty Insurance Co. www.xlinsurance.com Exton, Pa.

TREATING BACK INJURIES, AN occupational hazard in the waste industry, can create aches and pains in a waste firm's bottom line. According to the National...

ROOM for IMPROVEMENT 

By Bruce Henning

DESPITE ACCOLADES IT HAS received, the city of Phoenix knows there is always room for improvement particularly in transfer station design. In 1995, the...

Collective VIEW 

By Lynn Merrill

BUSINESS IN THE solid waste management industry is, well, solid. That doesn't mean there aren't challenges to running a successful business, however....

MAKING IT IN THE USA 

By Kim A. O'Connell

THE SOLID WASTE INDUSTRY, Paul Jenks likes to say, is more evolutionary than revolutionary. As president and CEO of Onyx Waste Services (OWS) and an industry...

PAYING THE PRICE 

By Michael Fickes

IT WAS ONLY A LITTLE LESS THAN one year ago that Ron McCracken, president of RJM Waste Equipment Co., Easley, S.C., grinned as he looked over December...

Transferring Loads 

Wendy Angel Assistant Editor

CONGRESS HAS REFUSED to put the brakes on shipments of municipal solid waste (MSW) since the late 1980s. Consequently, there has been a growing interest...

Lean, Green Transfer Machine 

By Larry Trojak

TRANSFER STATIONS PLAY A LARGE role in managing municipal solid waste (MSW), especially in an area as large as the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex, population...

CALLING ON CEOs 

Waste Age: How has the public sector side of the waste business both contractors and operations changed? Mickey: Economics have a dynamic impact on the...

CALLING ON CEOs 

THE WASTE INDUSTRY'S game of Hungry Hungry Hippo has long been over, but that does not mean waste management companies have put the lid on the game. In...

EXTREME MAKEOVER: WASTE ADDITIONS 

By Charlotte Woolard

WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE Phoenix area is undergoing radical change. But unlike a surgeon cutting away, the communities in Maricopa County, Ariz., are adding...

The Art of COMMERCIAL PRICING 

BY JEFF ADLER

PROVIDING COMMERCIAL collection is perhaps the most complex service a waste hauling company can provide. It involves serving a wide variety of customers,...

TO BUILD or Not TO Build 

By John Dempsey

SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND environmental concerns often can besiege a proposal to build a transfer station. To justify the need for such a facility, solid...

CALLING ON CEOs 

A Waste Age Exclusive

THE ROAD TO SUCCESS in the waste industry often seems as if it is littered with obstacles. Immense competition exists among haulers and among the private...

Fine-Tuning NYC's Future 

Mike Fickes Business Editor Cockeysville, Md.

WHEN FRESH KILLS LANDFILL on Staten Island, N.Y., closed in July 2001, it underscored New York City's need for a new approach to solid waste management....

For the Long HAUL 

By Wendy Angel

WHEN CONTEMPLATING what tarping system to buy, think of your purchase as a potential marriage. The goal is to have the tarping system for as long as you...

Earning a Star Role 

By Michael Fickes

IN MOST JURISDICTIONS, the coup de grace for trash usually comes when it is flung into a landfill. Not so in Hennepin County, Minn., which has no landfills....

[MAKING CONNECTIONS] 

By Kathleen M. White

AT A TIME WHEN SOME OF the top waste management companies have either scaled back acquisitions, downsized or both, Waste Connections Inc., Folsom, Calif.,...

Disposing of a Disaster 

Lynn Merrill Director of Public Services San Bernardino, Calif.

COORDINATING DEBRIS REMOVAL after a natural disaster, particularly a fire, is an important role for the waste industry, even if these events do not occur...

Hazwaste Homebase 

Michael Fickes Business Editor Cockeysville, Md.

COLLECTING HAZWASTE in Los Angeles has gotten safer and cheaper, thanks to new hazardous waste centers. Last year, the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation...

Big Events Mean Big Trash 

Michael Fickes Business Editor Cockeysville, Md.

LAST YEAR, 6.7 million people strewed trash across 15 major cities at 77 events such as the Super Bowl, the US Open and the Midtown Music Festival in...