Team Waste tackles waste backlog in Cordova, East Memphis, Hickory Hill
A pile of trash grows along Cordova Road on March 23, awaiting pick-up by Waste Pro. Since being hired on emergency terms April 2, Team Waste has leased 26 trucks and hired more than 30 employees to deal with Area E, which includes Cordova. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
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.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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