Community Happenings

Meridian Waste Florida has been voted the Nassau County Record’s Best Trash Company for the second consecutive year.

Safety is the number one priority at Meridian Waste. Our goal is to be the leader in safety and health and ultimately achieve zero accidents and zero injuries. The personal safety of each employee and every member of the communities in which we live and operate is vital to us.\

Slow Down to Get Around! Reminder to motorists to drive more carefully when near waste and recycling collection vehicles. By slowing down, drivers protect themselves, the waste and recycling collection workers and other motorists.

At Meridian Waste, the word SAFETY is a verb. Much to the mortification of my elementary school English teacher, I want all of our team members to embrace SAFETY as an action—something we DO every day with every task to ensure you protect your body, your health, and those of your peers, customers, and the greater community.

Our Touch-A-Truck event touched a few hearts!

Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement for-impact organization, has announced the summary of its 2020 study on litter in America.

Key findings include:

• Nearly 50 billion pieces of litter along U.S. roadways and waterways
• Slightly more litter along waterways (25.9B) than roadways (23.7B)
• 152 items for each U.S. resident
• More than 2,000 pieces of litter per mile (both roadway and waterway)
• 90% of people surveyed believe litter is a problem in their state
• 6 billion pieces more than 4 inches in size
• Most littered item remains cigarette butts, but this litter is down almost 70%
• 207.1M PPE items littered

Meridian Waste, an integrated announced today it closed on the purchase of Eco Waste Services, Inc., in the greater Greenville, S.C., marketplace.  

The acquired assets from Eco Waste Services include a hauling facility located at 512 Hood Rd. in Powdersville, S.C., and commercial contracts in Anderson, Cherokee, Laurens, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens, and Spartanburg counties. In addition to waste and recycling collection, the acquisition includes new construction site service lines of business for Meridian Waste with portable restrooms, temporary fencing, portable storage, and portable offices.

The Touch-A-Truck event for East Wake Education Foundation at Shotwell Landfill. Families and students were welcomed to Shotwell C&D Landfill for a Touch-A-Truck event.

An American Bald Eagle was spotted atop Eagle Ridge Landfill in Bowling Green, Mo. 

And the "Brightening the World" Coloring Contest Winners Are...
In the category of age five to seven: Siddharth Pradeep of Princeton, N.J.
And in the category of eight to 10: Lily Behe of Webster, N.Y.