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  2. Waste management - Wikipedia

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    Similar municipal systems of waste disposal sprung up at the turn of the 20th century in other large cities of Europe and North America. In 1895, New York City became the first U.S. city with public-sector garbage management. [26] Early garbage removal trucks were simply open-bodied dump trucks pulled by a team of horses.

  3. Landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Over 150 m (490 ft) of garbage has risen from the ground since the area became a designated landfill site in 1957. [25] In 1986, there were 7,683 landfills in the United States. By 2009, there were just 1,908 landfills nationwide: a 75 percent decline in disposal facilities in less than 25 years. [26] However, this number is deceptive.

  4. Waste Management, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    These new garbage and recycling trucks comprise one of the nation's largest fleets of heavy-duty trucks powered exclusively by natural gas. [39] In November 2009, at Waste Management's Altamont Landfill, a new plant began producing 13,000 gallons a day of LNG fuel from methane gas from the landfill that had fueled an electric power plant since ...

  5. Buncombe County kicks Waste Pro to the curb ... - AOL

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    Under Waste Pro’s proposed price schedule, prices would increase to $32.05 per month by 2026. That represents a 42% increase in three years. By comparison, inflation increased 19% from 2020 to 2023.

  6. Oxford residents to be served by new garbage disposal company

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    Aug. 23—OXFORD — Arrow Disposal Service, Inc. will begin residential pickup of garbage beginning Monday, Oct. 2. The move to the Abbeville-based company comes after the City of Oxford had ...

  7. Pay as you throw - Wikipedia

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    Studies have found that unit pricing, which involves charging a set price per bag of garbage thrown out, contribute to illegal dumping. Although the intent of unit pricing is to encourage people to use other forms of waste disposal such as recycling and composting, people often turn to disposing of waste in unauthorized areas to save money. [5]

  8. Republic Services - Wikipedia

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    Republic Services, Inc. is a North American waste disposal company whose services include non-hazardous solid waste collection, waste transfer, waste disposal, recycling, and energy services. It is the second largest provider of waste disposal in the United States (as measured by revenue) after Waste Management.

  9. Garbage disposal unit - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, 50% of homes had disposal units as of 2009, [12] compared with only 6% in the United Kingdom [13] and 3% in Canada. [14]In Britain, Worcestershire County Council and Herefordshire Council started to subsidize the purchase of garbage disposal units in 2005, in order to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and the carbon footprint of garbage runs. [15]

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