To Avoid Trashing the Environment in Oakland County All Waste Trucks Will Bypass Landfills

Sept. 4, 2009 - PRLog -- One out of every five sites slated for cleanup under the nation's Superfund program for toxic waste sites is a former municipal solid waste landfill. And there is a lot more than just lead and mercury going into and coming out of ordinary landfills. (Environmental Protection Agency, Rules and Guidelines March 12, 1996.)

All Waste, LLC, was started in 1998 with a single Mack truck and 12 roll-off dumpsters.  Today, Sherman runs an all-Mack fleet of 18 trucks and more than 1200 dumpsters.   Other services include portable storage containers, trash pick-up, and delivery of landscaping supplies including mulch, sod, top-soil, and crush aggregate.  http://thegarbageman.com/

Municipal landfill leachate (the liquid that drains from beneath a landfill) contains a host of toxic pollutants quite similar in composition and concentration to the leachate draining from hazardous waste landfills. In most modern landfills – but not in many older landfills that are still operating, systems are installed to collect some or all of this leachate. Even when it is successfully collected rather than escaping and potentially contaminating groundwater, however, leachate must be treated before it can be discharged – a major expense and a burden on already-encumbered municipal sewage treatment plants.

The decomposition of paper as well as yard waste and other materials in landfills also creates a variety of gaseous emissions. These gases include volatile organic chemicals which add to urban smog, and methane, a "greenhouse gas" that is far more potent per ton emitted than is carbon dioxide in contributing to global warming. Only a small minority of landfills operating today collect these gases. Landfills are responsible for an estimated 36% of all methane emissions in the U.S. (EPA Report, March 12, 1996.)

The family-owned company is committed to protect our environment, not to trash it!  As a company, Sherman overseas that mission by a simple directive:  drive past the landfills in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties.  ALL WASTE routes its non-recyclable trash pick up towards the direction of the Detroit incinerator.  

ALL WASTE, a trash container rental company, services the following communities:  MACOMB COUNTY: Mt. Clemens, Romeo, Washington Twp., Harrison Twp., Sterling Hgts., Warren, Shelby Twp., Utica, East Pointe, Macomb, St. Clair Shores, Clinton Twp., Centerline, Roseville, Fraser, Anchor Bay, New Baltimore, Chesterfield Twp., New Haven, Armada and Marine City.  OAKLAND COUNTY: Rochester, Rochester Hills, Troy, Bloomfield Hills, West Bloomfield, Clarkston, Auburn Hills, Birmingham, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Hazel Park, Southfield, Lathrup Village, Oxford, Lake Orion, Ortonville, Waterford, Pontiac, Clawson, Berkley, Beverly Hills, Farmington Hills, Farmington, Huntington Woods, and Oak Park.  WAYNE COUNTY:  Detroit, Dearborn, Grosse Pointe, Highland Park, Hamtramck, Redford, Dearborn Hgts., Inkster, Romulus, Canton, Plymouth Twp., Northville, Livonia, Garden City, Westland, Wayne, and Harper Woods.

For information about All Waste services contact Sherman Rogers at 877-524-1002 or email at Sherman@all-waste.com

This press release was submitted by Right Now Marketing Group, LLC.