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Garbage Workers Face Four Times The Peril Than Firefighters And Two Times More Dangerous Than Police Officers My heroes rolled into the neighborhood the other day, snatched up a menace to society, and quickly rolled out. They made some noise in the process, but as always, they moved with precision and no one was hurt … Read more
Robot-Based Autonomous Refuse Handling The effort to automate trash collection is underway. Volvo wants to make garbage pick-up quieter and less straining—and remove humans from the process almost entirely. The automaker on Wednesday said that it is collaboratingwith Chalmers University of Technology and Mälardalen University in Sweden, Penn State University in the United … Read more
Young California Boy Meets His Hero: The Garbage Man Allen James, or Bubbalou as he’s called by his family, goes to the window and waits. And at exactly 7:20 each Tuesday morning, something amazing happens. The garbage men come. “His love of the garbage truck started with his love of noises,” Cassandra Sales, Bubba’s mom, … Read more
Puneet Bhasin, WM former CIO Leads New Garbage Truck Technology Waste Management’s Puneet Bhasin was promoted above the chief information officer role earlier this year without a successor named. He became Senior Vice President of Corporate Operations and President of Waste Management Recycle America. Two of the company’s vice presidents are jointly running IT, reporting to the chief financial … Read more
Waste Industries is donating $10,000 to the Veterans Leadership Council of North Carolina – Cares (VLC) in support of its project to build the Veterans Life Center. Waste Industries will make the presentation to the Veterans Leadership Council at the Waste Industries Corporate office on September 15, 2015 at 10:30 AM, RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 14, 2015 … Read more
Alpine Waste and Recycling is a competitor of Waste Management throughout Colorado. Alpine Waste and Recycling has invested in equipment that will allow for Styrofoam recycling and expanded the capacity of its Denver recycling plant, more than doubling its ability to process single-stream recycling material “Alpine Waste and Recycling has invested in the future of recycling,” … Read more
Another man’s trash is Robin Nagle’s treasure. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/09/07/nyu-professor-sanitation-worker/ As CBS2’s Andrea Grymes reported, Nagle is the New York Sanitation Department’s very own anthropologist-in-residence — and for several months, a garbage woman. Back in the 1800s, when the department first formed, three-quarters of what it picked up went into the Atlantic Ocean. Now, workers … Read more
Despite rain, snow, 100-degree heat, wind and the occasional wild animal, Fernando Mendiola enjoys working outside. “You are not enclosed into one little area like if you worked in an office,” the city of Salina sanitation worker said. Mendiola, who’s been on the job four years, said he’s seen just about everything in the … Read more
Truck / Vehicle The TL-3 Lightning Loader® is the industry leading knuckleboom grapple truck. With a multitude of standard and available options, the TL-3 Lightning Loader® can be custom manufactured to fit any need. The TL-3 uses a hydraulically actuated knuckleboom with a single cylinder bucket and manifold block to keep hoses out of work … Read more