Canvas Collection
Deanna Hart, Assistant Editor
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Exhausting Regulations
By Sean Kilcarr
It's going to be a busy summer for Billy Cecil, equipment performance director for Houston-based Waste Management (WM). That's because he's the man in...
Dangerous Scratches
Bruce. A Hooker
In Real Estate, the saying goes that location is everything. The same holds true for dumpsters and roll-off boxes. Where a dumpster or roll-off box is...
An Automatic Decision?
By Kim O'Connell
AS SOCIETY BECOMES more computerized, people often lament the fact that old-fashioned manpower is being replaced by machines. In the solid waste industry,...
Greening Garbage Trucks
Jim Cannon
EACH WEEK, more than 100,000 refuse collection trucks drive down virtually every street in the United States to remove the clutter, smell and health risks...
Getting Tough
Annie Gentile
ACCORDING TO DETECTIVE JIM VANANDE of the Charlotte County, Fla., Sheriff's Office, it costs about $150 to dispose a truckload of trash at the county...
Alleviating Growing Pains
Eric Grotke
ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLA., a scenic region on the Treasure Coast, is considered paradise by many of its residents. The combination of beautiful scenery and...
How Convenient
Larry Karigan-Winter
RURAL AREAS FACE UNIQUE CHALLENGES when managing solid waste. Faced with all-too-easy illegal options such as burning and dumping, a lack of solid waste...
