When you’re planning to remodel your home, replace your roof or deck, or to just do a deep spring cleaning, there are good odds that you’re going to be creating piles and piles of waste. You can’t put this amount of trash in your trash can, so what can you do with it? You could use a pick-up truck to haul load after load to the landfill, but if you live nowhere near a landfill that could be a serious inconvenience. When you’re cleaning up after any kind of home improvement project, renting a drop box could make your life that much easier – especially since we will drop it off and pick it up at your location.
Drop boxes come in varying sizes and you may not be sure what size your project will require. If you go for the big box and don’t fill it you’ll waste your money, which can be tough to come by at the end of a construction project. On the other hand, if you go for the smallest to save a buck, it might cause more trouble than it was worth. So, here are some general guidelines to help you determine the drop box size that’s appropriate for your project. Read more »
Everyone has a role to play in keeping our environment clean. Yes, we all should be making wise decisions in regards to minimizing waste and maximizing our recycling
efforts. However, those of us in the waste disposal business have a particularly important role to play.That’s why Gresham Sanitary is proud to be playing our part in the promising trend of converting to work trucks that run on natural gas. In fact, we recently added a second Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) truck to our garbage fleet. You can read more about our story and the local movement to improve work truck emissions at Ecotrope, a blog from Oregon Public Broadcasting.Sure, businesses like ours have economic incentives, in the literal sense through Oregon’s new alternative fuel incentive program and fuel cost savings (natural gas is currently cheaper than diesel). But there are other benefits that have current and future implications for all of us:
- Natural gas trucks are quieter. That means less noise in your neighborhood!
- There’s less air pollution. Since natural gas is cleaner, it emits less air particulates, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide.
Natural gas isn’t the perfect environmental solution, but it is certainly a significant step in the right direction.
Gresham Sanitary Service (GSS) is proud to announce the use of a new truck fueled by compressed natural gas that will be utilized in their commercial hauling division.
Gresham Sanitary Service has been serving Oregon recycling and trash customers since 1948, GSS has always been committed to using modern efficiency based technology. The new truck utilizes GPS, and the latest in telephone, telecommunications, and computer-based equipment, however GSS still remains committed to its core purpose, to professionally and individually meet the needs of their customers in an honest, fair and cost effective manner.
Gresham Sanitary has been recognized as the first trash hauler in the state of Oregon to have a truck using an environmentally friendly alternative to diesel fuel. Running the trucks on compressed natural gas is a much more environmentally clean alternative. Today’s trends are moving towards more eco-friendly or green solutions, and Gresham Sanitary Service is leading the trend. This effort towards eliminating harmful fossil fuels helps the community reach its sustainability goals.
Matt Miller states, “We are very happy to be the first trash hauler in the state of Oregon to have a truck using compressed natural gas as fuel. This brings our company and community closer to becoming more eco-friendly, and helping the environment.
The new compressed natural gas truck is the first step in growing GSS’s entire fleet of disposal trucks to this more sustainable and environmentally friendly fuel source.
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Gresham Sanitary Service was founded in 1948 by Carl Lehl and his son, Harlen. Gresham Sanitary Service deals with waste disposal, recycling, compost, and preventing waste for Gresham, Oregon. Gresham Sanitary is now rapidly adding commercial, industrial, and multi-family customers in Portland and Multnomah County.
We have been recognized at portofportland.com as the first trash hauler in the state of Oregon to have a truck using compressed natural gas as fuel! Outfitting our trucks with CNG fuel was a very important decision that we made. Since we want to help the environment it seemed like making a truck that will run on clean-burning alternative fuel was the best move we could make – And we were definitely right about that! The new truck has worked out very well. It runs efficiently, uses a clean-burning energy source that is environmentally friendly, and out-does anything anyone else in the area has done with their waste management or garbage hauling trucks.
All in all we are very happy and excited about the new truck, and to be featured on Port of Portland is just the icing on the cake.
Check out our blog article about the garbage truck enthusiast– It has footage from the street that shows our truck in action!
Seems we’ve found someone who enjoys our garbage trucks almost as much as we do! We happened upon this the other day on YouTube and thought it was worth sharing so that people can see our trucks in action from a camera on the street.
In the video description he states that this is Gresham Sanitary Service’s brand new ACX truck, with a modified tailgate and bigger bin area that can hold three 90 gallon bins, as opposed to three 56 gallon bins in our earlier model trucks. What he doesn’t mention is that the truck also features a new glass bin, and that this is also a CNG truck. So far it’s been smooth sailing for the Compressed Natural Gas that runs this truck. It’s economical, and clean-burning alternative fuel and we’re the first company in the state to implement this into our trucks. Exciting stuff!
Oregonmetro.gov has placed Matt Miller of Gresham Sanitary Service as the Featured Garbage Hauler on their multifamily recycling: resident education page. The article, posted off to the right side of the page, tells a chunk of Matt’s story with Gresham Sanitary Service, and the history behind the sanitation and garbage hauling trade.
Speaking of how much advancement has come since 1948 when our business was started, Matt was quoted as saying "We're getting to the point where garbage will be almost nonexistent, and everything that we discard will be recyclable in some fashion," and went on to say that the key is long-term behavior change. You can check out the whole article to see more about Matt Miller and what he sees for the future of sanitation services.
You are visiting our brand new Gresham sanitary Service website put together with the help of Northwest eSource, Portland’s best web design team. The team at Northwest eSource was really committed to our vision and our goals in this update and its success.
As we near the final months of 2011 and prepare for the holiday season we’ve really had the chance to reflect on the past years events and see that a lot has been accomplished, and it makes us look forward to the next thriving year. There’s more to come and we will be adding much more information over the coming weeks & months, so stay tuned, but we hope you like the new website!
From all of us at Gresham Sanitary Service – we hope you’ve had a prosperous year.
When you’re planning to remodel your home, replace your roof or deck, or to just do a deep spring cleaning, there are good odds that you’re going to be creating piles and piles of waste. You can’t put this amount of trash in your trash can, so what can you do with it? You could use a pick-up truck to haul load after load to the landfill, but if you live nowhere near a landfill that could be a serious inconvenience. When you’re cleaning up after any kind of home improvement project, renting a drop box could make your life that much easier – especially since we will drop it off and pick it up at your location.
Everyone has a role to play in keeping our environment clean. Yes, we all should be making wise decisions in regards to minimizing waste and maximizing our recycling
