Keeping the Community Clean -
Message from Alex Braicovich

As you make your way around the Inland Empire on your way to work, school or conducting your daily errands, it’s hard to miss the green Waste Management trucks.

Our drivers will be the first to tell you that this means a lot of time spent driving. But WM is proud that in addition to providing comprehensive services to our customers, we’re also taking steps to be considerate of the environment, not just with our waste and recycling services, but also with our vehicles.

Last summer, for example, Waste Management beat the California Air Resources Board (ARB) early deadline for retrofitting or retiring diesel trucks in order to reduce particulate emissions. We have reduced more than 21 tons per year of harmful air emissions from our fleet of garbage and recycling trucks through several different processes.

Many of our trucks in our fleet have either been permanently retired, replaced with clean burning natural gas trucks or equipped with “best available control technologies” – special pollution controls such as oxidation catalysts or filters – to reduce harmful particulate emissions. The total reduction in air pollution includes cutting particulate emissions by an estimated three tons per year and smog-forming NOx (oxides of nitrogen) emissions by more than 18 tons per year. The NOx reduction is the equivalent of taking 2,305 new passenger cars off of the road.

In addition to investing in our equipment, we are also investing in our most important resource, our people. To this end, I am very excited to announce the addition of two new team members to our Recycling Team here at Waste Management of the Inland Empire. Steve Glynn and Leslie Hall will be tasked with leading our Recycling Compliance and Coordination efforts throughout our service area effective immediately.

We all recognize the importance of providing the appropriate resources and information when it comes to recycling in our communities. We feel that Steve and Leslie will both play an integral role in our customers recycling programs. They will be available to assist with community outreach, state recycling compliance and overall assistance with your recycling programs.

These are just a few of the efforts we are engaged in for our mission of Keeping the Inland Empire Clean – read about some of our other community and environmental efforts on our Web site, at www.KeepingInlandEmpireClean.com

Alex Braicovich
Director of Government Affairs

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