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Safety
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Tackling safety in the collection fleet
Google ‘garbage truck accidents’ and the results will make for grim reading
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Permira company buys equity stake in Lytx
SAN DIEGO and MENLO PARK, Calif., – A company backed by the Permira funds and co-investors have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Lytx. The transaction values Lytx, a provider of machine vision and artificial…
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Halifax to install sideguards on collection trucks
HALIFAX – The Halifax city council has approved the cost of buying sideguards for its garbage trucks. The Halifax Chronicle Herald reported that councillors unanimously approved the sideguards that protect pedestrians from sliding underneath waste collection trucks. They disagreed, however,…
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Scrapping environmental watchdog is like shooting the messenger
Ontario’s government last week were a series of provisions significantly curtailing the power of the province’s environmental watchdog
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Dash-cam footage exonerates garbage truck driver
Grimsby, Ont. – When one of Advantage Waste’s front loader garbage trucks was involved in a traffic collision with a reckless car driver; a lack of witnesses meant local police had little choice but to write off the incident as…