IESI Corp. has acquired the New York City commercial waste hauling operations of Allied Waste Industries, Inc.
"We are pleased with this acquisition as the integrated operations will provide improved density and efficiencies to our current operations in the New York City market," said Mickey Flood, IESI's president and CEO.
Flood also called for New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg to made significant changes to the rate cap for commercial waste collection. That program has been in place in the city since 1999.
"We and many in our industry hope that the Bloomberg Administration will come to the only logical conclusion possible - that the rate cap must be radically changed," Flood commented. "This is necessary to allow collectors to continue to provide quality waste collection and disposal services to the businesses in New York City at reasonable rates."