Waste Advantage Magazine articles

From the first company to offer single-stream recycling in the mid-Atlantic region to becoming a leader in transitioning to alternative fuels, TFC Recycling is committed to improving its technologies as well as helping other organizations implement a natural gas program.

Started by the Benedetto family in 1973, TFC Recycling still operates as a family owned business today, now run by Michael Benedetto, President and CEO. Its primary location is in Chesapeake, VA where

By transitioning to Bridgeport’s Ranger Automated Side Loaders, TFC Recycling has lowered their operating costs and kept it simple.

As the largest recycling company in the mid-Atlantic region, TFC Recycling, located in the Hampton Roads (Colston) area of Chesapeake, VA, operates a large MRF in Chesapeake, a smaller one in Richmond and a baling and transfer operation in Newport. The company provides recycling and trash-related curbside collection to about 700,000

Spills and effluent water around a shop can cause an operation time and money. Taking simple steps to understand and apply best practices and the right products can mitigate the problematic effects and make any shop safer.

If you work in a maintenance shop in the waste industry, you know that one thing is unavoidable—spills. With so many pieces of equipment and so many fluids around the shop, spills are a recurring event. The effects of those leaks or spills can

EPA’s recent regulatory changes are expected to alter the way landfills are regulated for the foreseeable future with a potential to add additional compliance costs for the industry. 

Created out of a need for waste haulers to respond to government decisions, the CRRC has grown to a pivotal organization in California that has a hand in influencing the waste industry’s legislation issues.

In the 1950s when several waste haulers in Northern and Southern California saw that pending legislation in Sacramento would impact them and the waste industry, they banded together to lead the fight against a bill that would have cost the industry several hundreds of thousan

The Newton, IA landfill sta rted out as an old strip mine in 1945. When it first was created, trash was dumped at the site and whenever it was needed, the garbage was set on fire and pushed into the old strip mine. As the rules have changed throughout the years, the dump was transitioned into a sanitary landfill in the late 1960s. However, at that time the trash would still pile up and would not get covered according to today’s standards. Finally, as the regulations changed, the way of

In today’s changing market there are many options for haulers to accomplish their goals. One of these options is to use roll-off trailers instead of roll-off trucks. There are many models of roll-off trailers, from a very short 25` 11" to 48` long to help customers attack different markets and minimize their capital expenditures.

Short Roll-Off Trailers
The most popular of roll-off models is a short roll-off trailer that only measures 25` 11" long. They are

Solid waste management in the U.S. has always been a uniquely local endeavor. Typically, landfilling has provided the most efficient and least expensive option for solid waste management by local governments. Recently, there has been an increasing demand for clean, affordable alternatives to landfilling and other traditional forms of waste disposal. Throughout the world, mainly in Europe and Japan, emerging waste conversion technologies have found success marketing and implementing their tech

One of the pioneers in biogas use, St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Disposal District has used its landfill gas to fuel vehicles in their local Sheriff’s Department.

Born out of the need to deal with open dumps in the late 1970s, the St Landry Parish Solid Waste Disposal District’s purpose was to deal with the growing problem. Before its creation, waste was collected by a multitude of local haulers who took the waste to one of many open dumpsites. Then, in

With a fully operational, deployed and comprehensive maintenance software system, companies can increase their visibility to costs and operations performance.

Business profitability is measured by a variety of factors, from the amount of sales and service income to decrease (or increase) in administrative and operating expenses. For waste handling companies, fleet maintenance can represent a significant outgo in the last category. Using best practices can help cont