News & Updates
A benefit is planned next weekend for a Shakopee garbage man whose life was changed when he was hit outside his North St. Paul home by a motorcyclist who fled the scene. Jason Hanna was struck by the motorcycle one evening in April as he tried to flag down the driver to slow down. Hanna … Read more
Mayor Bill de Blasio is pursuing the laudable goal of trying to reduce the burdens of commercial waste in certain highly affected neighborhoods, but is doing so by adopting unsophisticated waste-management policies that will have far more negative consequences than benefits. Moving the city to a franchised system – a competitive bidding process to select … Read more
A panel of CEOs from major waste and recycling companies in the United States, Brazil and China addressed topics ranging from recycling to waste to energy during Wastecon/ISWA World Congress 2017, a combined conference hosted by the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), Silver Spring, Maryland, and the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), Wien, Austria, in Baltimore Sept. … Read more
WCA Waste Corp. has signed a lease for 19,945 square feet to expand its headquarters in the Four Oaks Place, 1330 Post Oak Blvd. Dan Boyles and Mike Mannella of NAI Partners represented the tenant. Eric Anderson and Tyler Garrett of Transwestern represented the landlord, Four Oaks Place Operating LP. Bigge Crane & Rigging Co. … Read more
On Friday, the day of Ken Radley’s funeral, his neighbors lined up their garbage cans in front of his Lake Ridge Court residence. It was a poignant tribute to Radley, who on Fridays after the garbage truck collected trash in the neighborhood, would pull the garbage cans from the street back to the homes of … Read more
이미지뷰 Mayuko Fukudome, left, and Umekita Nako pose for a photo as they take part in a garbage collecting event in Korea on Sept. 16. [YANG BO-RA] About 40 people wait in line holding piles of garbage at a plaza near the U-Plex shopping mall in Sinchon, western Seoul. The time was 7 p.m. on … Read more
Ian Wakelin, chief executive of Biffa, the UK’s second largest waste management business, got his timing just right when he brought the company to the stock market last autumn. A key rationale was to provide Biffa with more financial firepower and public profile to continue its pacy acquisition strategy. “I think so,” Wakelin said, when … Read more