American Liquid Waste Magazine

Lakeshore Recycling Systems (LRS) is a comprehensive waste management company with 15 state-of-the-art recycling centers serving municipalities, school systems, and other public institutions throughout the Chicago metro area, greater Illinois, and Wisconsin. In 2019, the enterprise was named one of the Chicago area’s fastest-growing companies, on the renowned Crain’s Fast 50. LRS controls nearly 2.5 […]

Pipe Spy was founded by Paul Cooper and Heiko Dzierzon in 1998 to offer sewer repair and replacement services in the East Bay area. The company currently has offices serving Oakland and San Francisco/Marin Counties and offers commercial and residential services such as sewer line maintenance, sewer camera inspection, and trenchless sewer repair and replacement. […]

Cotter’s Sewer | Septic | Portable Toilets is an innovative company for several reasons. Many of the local septic service and portable toilet companies we’ve covered over the last year have got their starts in places and locations where portable toilet technology was, as they call it in the IT industry, “bleeding edge,” which means […]

On the far side of Lake Ontario, just a hop, skip, and a jump from Vermont in Ontario Canada is Harris Septic Pumping and Haulage, a septic service and portable toilet rental company that has provided friendly and professional service to their area since 1975. It is a family-owned and operated company that earned a […]

Hemley’s Septic Service got its start almost 60 years ago in 1962. At the time founder, Richard Hemley worked for a company that provided septic repair services. During these formative years, he learned all the ins and outs of septic design, repair, and optimization. So when he saw the first septic pump truck to set […]

In recent months, we’ve covered several portable toilet rental companies and waste management firms which got their start around the end of the second world war. During that part of American history, many such companies got their start in the business due to their foresight and readiness to leverage the developing technologies of the day. […]

Established in 1957, Boyett’s is one of those many local level sanitation companies that did everything right early on in the game. They struck while the iron was hot when it came to getting into the portable restroom rental, supply, and service business by providing rental portable toilets as soon as the technology became available […]

Construction in the San Fernando Valley in the 1940s was very much up in the air. With much of the nation’s resources being pumped into fighting Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers, the shape of construction depended largely on the available materials, which were scarce. As we have covered in recent articles, the early forms […]

Like many local level septic service companies, Joy’s Johns started largely in response to marked under-development in their home town, Granger, Indiana in 1945. Easily one of the oldest septic service companies that we have covered, Joy’s has grown up alongside the Granger community and has been an important part of the town’s development over […]

Jim’s Liquid Waste Hauling LLC: Septic Service With a Personal Twist Like many local septic service and portable restroom rental companies, Jim’s Liquid Waste Hauling LLC is a family-owned business with a local history and strong ties to the community it serves. Founded in 1988, the company has developed a strong rapport with their customers. […]