Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about WASTE INDUSTRIES!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Waste Industries is a provider of non-hazardous solid waste and recycling collection, transfer, and disposal company in the southeast United States . the company announced its intentions to merge with Canadian-based GFL Evironmental for an Poole’s compactor idea failed, but he found his calling, and started Waste Industries in Raleigh, North Carolina . by 1980 the company had reached ten million dollars in revenue and soon after, they named their first employee, in 2008, the company went private again and experienced a restructuring in its management . in 2010, north car state university unveiled a wall display highlighting original Waste Industries founder Lonnie Poole . Poole is a longtime supporter of NC State and provided major investments to create graduate business degree programs after switching schools to get his MBA due to the lack of a program upon his graduation from NC State with his bachelor’s degree