Waste industry growing pains

摘要

Waste industry pros sense there have been some fairly funda-mental structural changes in the last 10 to 15 years. The degree of the perceived changes and their impact on specific businesses vary depending on the perspective of the observer, but there definitely has been a change. For more corporate waste industry participants (those controlled by shareholders) these changes have been reflected in amalgamations, consolidation and the increased importance of corporate governance in day-to-day operations. From the point of view of closely-held or family-owned waste companies, change has come in the form of increased requirements to manage complex regulatory compliance and, at the same time, deal with greater competition both from large private sector and (to a degree) public sector players.