WasteWORKS News Archives

Since 1970, North Georgia Textile Supply has specialized in recycling and recovery services, helping businesses divert reusable materials from landfills and return valuable items to the supply chain. Over the decades, they have streamlined and created the capability to process what are known as “hard-to-recycle” materials; this was possible through gained knowledge and proficiency in the field, as well as their construction of comprehensive facilities. Every year, NGTS prevents millions of poun [...]

Because of Sevier County, Tennessee’s proximity to Great Smoky Mountain National Park and popular attractions like Dollywood, the area has seen a significant boom in tourism in recent years—along with an increase in the availability of short-term rental properties to accommodate tourists. Not surprisingly, with this increase in visitors has come an increase in trash. As a result, the county’s solid waste convenience centers were reaching max capacity for their compactors before the end of the d [...]

During the past year we have seen an increase in customer requests for ways to both reduce Covid-19 exposure and expedite scale house ticketing times (it seems like a lot of folks took advantage of their quarantine to clean out their garage!). A great example of achieving both goals can be seen in Buncombe County, NC (home of Asheville). Buncombe County Solid Waste has recently implemented the Card-On-File option from our integrated credit card processing partner, Forte. This is one of the great [...]