Community Happenings

ECO Waste (a Meridian Waste Company) drivers Brantley “BJ” Thompson and William Gantt, Sr. along with General Manager John Prochak became BIG STARS today as they hosted a Touch-A-Truck event among 20+ young students at Great Adventures Learning Academy in Easley, SC.

Meridian Waste North Carolina, LLC, hosted a groundbreaking on September 6 for its Shotwell Environmental Park’s state-of-the-art materials recovery facility, a first of its kind in the greater Triangle marketplace. 

Meridian Waste held a team member hiring event at its hauling operations facility located at 2078 Lane Avenue North in Jacksonville, FL on Saturday, August 26 with 122 candidates for commercial driver's license (CDL) drivers, helpers, mechanics, and dispatch positions.

Meridian Waste celebrated its third annual Summer Splash Bash at its Shotwell Environmental Park on Saturday, August 19 with 617 guests from the surrounding areas of Wake and Johnston Counties. 

Golden Retriever puppy, Harvey Messinger (pictured at eleven (11) weeks old) pouts as his dad, Patrick Messinger, now Area President - North Carolina, prepares for work at Meridian Waste.

On Friday, September 15th, Kimberly Sulecki, the director of E. M. Holt Elementary School’s Backpack Program, extended a warm welcome to Meridian Waste and expressed her heartfelt appreciation for the food donation, emphasizing how much it means to the program and the children it serves. 

Meridian Waste North Carolina, LLC announced the acquisition of two related companies located in Liberty, NC with Coble’s Sandrock, Inc. a permitted construction and demolition debris (C&D) landfill along with the assets of Coble’s Container Service, LLC, a roll off collection company.

Lunenburg County Youth Baseball League, Inc Board of Directors express much appreciation for the monetary donation in the amount of $2000 to our World Series Fund. 

Meridian Waste has provided financial and employee training with $15,700 and 113 hours, respectively, to upgrade and protect its team members with the installation and personnel training of automated external defibrillator (AED) equipment and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) first aid training in all company operating locations.  Meridian Waste places great importance on the safety and health of the company's most vital assets, its people. 

Images of the torch that will carry the Olympic fire at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Games next summer have been finally revealed. The redesigned torch features a sleek silver-colored cylinder that is made of recycled steel in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of the 2,000 torches that will be produced for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.