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Save Lives with One Easy Choice

Slow Down to Get Around It sounds so simple, but many drivers fail to do it. When you’re driving behind a recycling or garbage truck performing curbside collection services, slow down. Leave a little extra space to accommodate frequent stops and slow down before passing. We understand drivers are often in a hurry. So many … Read more

American Waste Control – As Paul Ross stood outside the Tulsa Recycle & Transfer facility

Watching firefighters battle an inferno raging inside, two employees who lived nearby approached him with tears in their eyes. “They asked if they would have a job tomorrow,” the vice president of American Waste Control remembered. “I wrapped my arms around them and told them yes — we need them now more than we needed … Read more

Sanitation Workers For Jesus! East Texas boy, sanitation worker develop heartwarming relationship.

HOOKS, Texas (KSLA) – Growing up, children often aspire to be first responders, astronauts, doctors or pilots. For 5-year-old Kutter Fisher, his superhero can found wearing a neon vest and riding in a Waste Management trash truck. Yes, Kutter aspires to be a sanitation worker and his hero, Larry Collins, makes a stop at his … Read more

Curbtender Inc designs and manufactures refuse collection vehicles in Cedar Falls, Iowa and Gothenburg, Nebraska.

Curbtender’s very own, Dean Steege, played a pivotal role in developing what would be the refuse industry’s first commercially produced automated side loading refuse truck. Learn more about Dean’s role in automated waste collection and how he’s still part of innovating at Curbtender decades later. Curbtender Inc designs and manufactures refuse collection vehicles in Cedar … Read more

Southwest Sanitation, Wisconsin – WRWW

@SWSanitation Our mission is to provide our customers with the highest quality waste management services possible, while minimizing our impact on the environment by constantly striving to increase recycling volumes and improve operational efficiency.

City of Brookings, SD – #WRWW

Join us in saying “Thank You” during National Waste and Recycling Workers Week – Week of June 17, 2021 What if we all spent a day getting as excited as children do when they see the garbage truck coming down the street?  The week of June 17th is the time for us to show our … Read more

A message from WCA Driver. This is the first time I have ever been honored for keeping the streets safe!

The Honey Brown Hope Foundation’s “No Trashing-Trash Workers Campaign,” sponsored by Frost Bank, is hosted during “Waste and Recycling Workers Week,” June 17-24. The commemorative week calls for everyone to: Thank you #JohnArwood!

Waste & Recycling Workers Week, we want to give a shoutout to our Recycling Specialist, Edgar Castro Tello

To close Waste & Recycling Workers Week, we want to give a shoutout to our Recycling Specialist, Edgar Castro Tello. Edgar is committed to educating the community about conservation. Fun fact, he spent 2yrs doing migratory bird studies to protect birds like Bald Eagles & Ospreys.

Congratulations Brandon Hurst! President/CEO, Martin Environmental Services Inc.

About Martin Environmental Martin Environmental Services, Inc. is a family owned and operated small business, with its primary office in Dothan, AL. We operate as a waste and recycling company that puts its focus on its employees and the customers that it serves. Our company was started in 1999 by Dothan resident, Jim Martin, as … Read more

Republic Services Showing Community Love!

This is my buddy Clayton, yesterday he I told him that I got a new route and he wasn’t happy. He’s mom told him to smile for the picture. Lol as it turns out they might be moving and guess who there yard waste driver is going to be if they get this house? Yuuuuuup … Read more