There are 10 article(s) tagged Waste Pro USA:

• April 2026

  • Bailey: It costs a lot to pick up all the garbage

    Some suburban residents may have to face an increase in sanitation costs this summer, but the increase is certainly better than trash sitting uncollected at the curb.

    By Clay Bailey April 03, 2026

• April 2021

  • City faces critical decision on one of its most basic services

    Memphis has an emergency contract with Team Waste in Area E, probably until the end of 2021. In the interim, officials are considering whether to keep using a private waste company to manage the area or expand city services to cover it. 

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    How your solid waste fee ballooned to $30 a month

    A short history of Area E

    By Bill Dries April 25, 2021

  • How your solid waste fee ballooned to $30 a month

    Here is the history behind the city’s solid waste fee and how it compares to what the city’s new private contractor for Area E is being paid and what the previous contractor was being paid.

    Related stories: 

    City faces critical decision on one of its most basic services

    A short history of Area E

    By Bill Dries April 25, 2021

  • Team Waste tackles waste backlog in Cordova, East Memphis, Hickory Hill

    The new private contractor serving 35,000 households transitioned Monday from dealing with a backup from the past month to making daily trash pickups in Cordova, Hickory Hill and East Memphis. 

    By Bill Dries April 12, 2021

  • City ends Waste Pro contract

    The contract cancellation comes at the end of a 20-day period to fix problems with waste pickup in Area E — Cordova, Hickory Hill and East Memphis. Residents in the area complained last month that Waste Pro not only missed scheduled trash pickup days but left trash by the curb for weeks.

    By Bill Dries April 11, 2021

  • Overtime, emergency contracts get Cordova, Area E garbage picked up

    On April 10, the city could terminate its contract with Waste Pro for poor service or determine that Waste Pro has made good on dealing with the backlog of trash. The council voted Tuesday calling on the administration to cancel the city’s contract.

    By Bill Dries April 07, 2021

  • Fairgrounds financing, MLGW contract, trash troubles top council agenda

    The April 6, council session includes a vote on $75 million in revenue bonds for the Fairgrounds renovation as well as a vote on the $520,000 contract to explore alternatives to TVA as MLGW’s electric power supplier. And council members review a month of vocal complaints about trash pickup.

    By Bill Dries April 06, 2021

  • City disputes Waste Pro claim it rejected Good Friday pickups

    The Thursday, April 1, press release from the company is the latest salvo in an exchange between the city and the company that went public last week.

    By Bill Dries April 02, 2021

• March 2021

  • ‘Stringing us along': Trash talk in Memphis-Waste Pro showdown

    Better weather and a relentless barrage of complaints about garbage piling up seem to have been the breaking point in the city’s relationship with Waste Pro USA. The chairman of the City Council said it felt like the private waste company was “stringing us along.” 

    By Bill Dries March 29, 2021

  • Waste Pro says it wants out of contract as city suspends payments

    Waste Pro, the company at the center of sanitation complaints in Cordova, is looking to end its contract with the City of Memphis. Meanwhile, Mayor Jim Strickland said there’s been no formal notice to the city and the city moved to end the contract with a 20-day notice last week to either fix the problems or consider the contract ended.

    By Bill Dries March 25, 2021