News & Updates
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month…Kudos to the Waste Management Industry for spreading the word According to the American Cancer Society, in 2013 approximately 39,620 women were expected to die from Breast Cancer. Treatment for this terrible disease is most effective when discovered early through regular screenings which makes public reminders to schedule screenings so important. … Read more
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — John “Derf” Backderf, known simply as “Derf” to all, has cornered the market on writing about things most of us don’t care to think about, such as his last graphic novel, “My Friend Dahmer,” and his comic strip, “The City.” Derf’s latest work is another foray into a world that most of us … Read more
DELPHOS — Growing up as children, I think it’s safe to say that most of us had our parents asking us to “take out the trash” as one of our unwanted chores. For St. John’s Lego students, trash has their undivided attention. The students of the St. John’s sixth- and seventh-grade Lego teams are registered … Read more
PreviousNext “I was in tears when I did this,” Riaza, 44, said as he held up the picture of a disabled man. City Sanitation worker Anthony Riaza lost more than his left hand after it was crushed under a collection truck in a freak accident 10 months ago. He lost the ability to pursue his … Read more
One Dallas neighborhood is inviting their sanitation workers over for candy after a recent Dallas Morning News profile of one such worker. Larry Offutt, a resident of Bryan Parkway, said he appreciated the reminder of what hard work hauling garbage is. He and two neighbors bought dozens of pairs of gloves and will attach them to every … Read more
When employees of Tracy’s King Crab Shack went into work Sunday morning, they were greeted by cardboard boxes, trash bags and crab bisque containers scattered all over the alleyway. Three dumpsters had been overturned. It’s that time of year again. Bears have descended on Juneau dumpsters and garbage cans, which mean people have to be … Read more
MOLINE, Ill. (WQAD/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — Doikel Gning wanted to meet the man that he owes so many thanks. “I came to say thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. I would never be able to express in these words how I really feel,” said Gning upon meeting Dennis Crouch. Their story takes … Read more
The alarm rings at 3 a.m. Rosie Lopez gets out of bed in her Phoenix home and puts on dark pants, a long-sleeve T-shirt, work boots and a yellow reflective vest. At 8 a.m., she is three hours into her workday and seated behind the wheel of a 60-foot truck. A trailer hitched to the back carries a two-ton loader tractor. She carefully parallel parks … Read more
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – Livingston Parish officials gathered for the grand opening of a new Waste Management facility in Walker that would help clean up the air in the Capital area. The new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fleet facility will cover routes in Livingston Parish and the greater Baton Rouge area. Waste Management officials … Read more