Commingled Conversation: John Arwood

John Arwood is an American Indian who grew up in West Virginia as a coal miner’s son. He moved his family to Jacksonville, Fla., in the early ’70s where he took a job as a welder. Recycling has been Arwood’s passion since he was a child and recycled aluminum cans and bottles in the neighborhood on his bicycle. Arwood Waste & Demolition was born in 1984 when Arwood and his son began recycling metal and offering clean-up services to factories through dismantling old