Automation

Waste Age's recent survey uncovers the benefits and challenges of automated collection.

Waste Age’s new survey uncovers the benefits and challenges of automated collection.

Waste managers want to combine software systems to automate tasks, increase productivity and overcome problems.

On nov. 28, a waste collector outside of Greenville, S.C., was killed after pushing his co-worker out of the way of an oncoming car and being hit himself. Thirty minutes later, nearly 1,400 miles north in snowy Caribou, Maine, another collector...

Devices can allow commercial front loaders to be used for fully automated residential collection.

Editor's Note: The following is a first-person account of Goodrich, Texas-based Pro Star Waste's experiences with a fully automated collection system, told by one of the firm's executives...

Determined to clean things up, New Orleans has awarded contracts totaling an estimated $25 million to two Louisiana-based, minority-owned waste firms. The Crescent City is promoting the contracts as part of Mayor Ray Nagin's “100 Day Initiative”...

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You know you've got to cover that waste. How you do it is the question. Most jurisdictions now require haulers to cover their roll-off boxes before carrying them to the disposal site...