News & Updates
This week’s employee highlight is Jessica Martinez from our Heartland facility. Jessica has 10 years of experience working in the waste and recycling industry and at Lakeshore she sorts the single-stream recyclable materials. Jessica goes above and beyond to help her fellow employees and leads by example when it comes to following safety protocols. Jessica, … Read more
British refuse and recycling company, Business Waste, announced on December 18, 2017, that it would be the first garbage collection service in the nation to accept bitcoin as a payment method. The company, based out of York, UK, has stated that it will be accepting commercial contracts paid for in the cryptocurrency. Arwood Waste, a US based waste firm … Read more
A Sammamish boy and the man who picks up the garbage on his block have formed an unexpected bond. They both know what it’s like to fight cancer. Author: Ted Land A Sammamish boy and the man who picks up the garbage on his block have formed an unexpected friendship. One is just learning to … Read more
Waste-to-product company Renewi PLC has announced that it recently started accepting the first waste at its new Organics Biofuels Processing Facility, a closed-loop and fully integrated organics waste management system in the city of Surrey, Canada, that is expected to help supply fuel for the city’s waste collection trucks. The company claims its facility is … Read more
The feel-good video about the unsung dedication of a Winnetka garbage collector is bringing out the good will of strangers. It all started when Winnetka resident Julie Peterson created a video about her garbage man, Ron Turner, who, despite his share of adversities, cheerfully performs a job he knows many people wouldn’t touch. The video … Read more
Waste Management at the Hook . We collected toys for Local 731 Teamsters Union Toys for Tots drive.
If you’re not in the holiday spirit yet, maybe this picture of MVD driver Art and these small Sanger residents will help! A Sanger residential customer requested that our driver swing by their home for his Christmas gift─ these brothers were excited to finally meet their garbage man.
The Visionscape Group has taken delivery of a fresh batch of environment sanitation trucks to beef up its fleet ahead of the formal launch of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) in early 2018. Cleaner Lagos Initiative waste bins Cleaner Lagos Initiative waste bins The batch comprising compactors, trash trucks, trailer heads and other utility vehicles, … Read more
The world produces 3.5 million tons of garbage every day, a number that is increasing. For a recent story in the Washington Post, “Drowning in Garbage,” reporter Kadir van Lohuizen traveled to six major cities around the world to see how they are solving, or neglecting, their trash issue. He joins Hari Sreenivasan from Amsterdam … Read more