'Fleet Owner' magazine recognizes Waste Industries

Waste Industries, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, has announced that it has received a 2016 Fleet of the Year award from Fleet Owner magazine, Stamford, Connecticut. The award recognized Waste Industries for its effort in the vocational category to market its investment in compressed natural gas (CNG) to win more business from the residential and commercial customers it serves.

The 2016 Fleet of the Year awards event took place March 1, 2017, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, with co-sponsor WIX Filters, in conjunction with the 2017 Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) convention.

Waste Industries is a regional provider of nonhazardous solid waste collection, transfer, recycling and disposal services. The company currently operates in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.

In addition to its solid waste services business, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, Black Creek Renewable Energy LLC, operates a landfill-gas-to-energy plant adjacent to the company’s Sampson County, North Carolina, landfill. Current power generation is sufficient to supply electricity to approximately 10,000 households, the company says.