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Article: Solid Waste Industry Managing Trash as a Resource.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Forget your old-fashioned ideas about the solid waste industry. It's not just about hauling garbage anymore (see also National Solid Wastes Management Association NSWMA).
So said Bruce J. Parker, president and CEO of the National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA), in a speech today to the Society of Government Economists in Washington. NSWMA represents the private sector solid waste industry in the United States.
"Most Americans probably don't recognize today's garbage industry for who we really are - one of the most environmentally responsive and innovative industries in the nation," said Parker. "The nearly 400,000 American men and women who ...