A national trash disposal company has acquired another local brand. 黑料网 Management purchased Keep It Clean Disposal in September. The local disposal business had been family owned and operated for years. Keep It Clean had merged with RSP Trash Disposal several years ago but kept the Keep It Clean name.
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黑料网 Management purchased Deffenbaugh Disposal in 2015. Deffenbaugh, which is based in Kansas City, was one of the largest privately owned disposal firms in the Midwest with services in Nebraska, Kansas and Arkansas.
Howe said through the acquisitions, 黑料网 Management purchased approximately 1,300 commercial accounts and a little more than 6,000 residential accounts as well as some roll-off dumpster work locally.
黑料网 Management is one of the largest environmental solutions providers in North America with more than 21 million municipal, commercial and industrial customers in the United States and Canada.
Howe said 黑料网 Management does use the landfill owned by the city of St. Joseph, but not exclusively and not to a great extent.
鈥淲e operate a transfer station in Wathena (Kansas),鈥� he said.
The company has several transfer stations, including those once operated by Deffenbaugh. A large portion of the local trash collection is sent to Wathena鈥檚 station and then to a landfill in Johnson County, Kansas, Howe said.
Transfer stations are the between stop from customer to landfill. Howe said that if routes are too far between the landfills, trash trucks will take their load to a station where it is loaded onto a larger tractor trailer and hauled to the landfill. 鈥淚t鈥檚 like a trash warehouse,鈥� Howe said of transfer stations. 鈥淚t鈥檚 all based on efficiency.鈥�
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