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Republic Industries was created as a waste disposal firm in 1981. Wayne Huizenga became chairman of the board in 1995 [citation needed], when Republic Industries began acquiring auto dealerships and car rental agencies. In 1998, Republic Industries spun off Republic Services as an IPO, and then changed its name to AutoNation. [4]
The number of stickers required for pick up depended on volume, weight and size. Assuming a resident used one trash sticker ($4.86) per week, the new $17.30 monthly rate is cheaper.
In 1968, Harm's grandson Wayne Huizenga, Dean Buntrock, and Larry Beck founded Waste Management, Inc. and began aggressively purchasing many of the smaller garbage collection services across the country. In 1971, Waste Management went public, and by 1972, the company had made 133 acquisitions with $82 million in revenue.
Jon Vander Ark doesn't mind anyone calling the company he leads, Republic Services, a garbage company. After all, founded in 1996, the company made its name hauling trash and still makes 5 million ...
Hawkish residents questioned why Republic Services Inc. — a multi-billion-dollar waste disposal company — wanted tax-free funding for a project at its Arlington landfill. The $59B owner of a ...
8,660 – number of curbside recycling programs in 2006; 8,875 – number of curbside recycling programs in 2003; 95 – percentage of energy saved by recycling an aluminum can, compared with manufacturing a new one; 4.6 – pounds of trash per person per day (most in the world) 1.5 – pounds of recycled materials per person per day
Utility companies that work in the area are the Ameren IP Company (providing both electricity and natural gas), the Illinois-American Water Company, Stookey Township Sewer and Belleville Sewage. Since Stookey Township isn't officially part of Belleville, it does not receive city trash service—several public and privately owned trash ...
The Illinois Republican Party was organized at the Bloomington Convention in Major's Hall in Bloomington on May 29, 1856. Its founding members came from the former Whig Party in Illinois after its members joined with several powerful local political factions including, notably, the Independent Democrat movement of Chicago that helped elect James Hutchinson Woodworth Mayor in 1848.