American Liquid Waste Magazine

David Zuidema can boast being in business for 90 years. Well, David Zuidema, himself, can’t, but his business, David Zuidema, Inc. can. The fourth generation, family-owned and run business began in 1919 and is one of the most successful septic companies servicing New Jersey, New York and the five boroughs. Zuidema, Inc. has been working [...]

WasteBooks has been developing software for waste haulers since 1987. WasteBooks is an integrated module to QuickBooks that provides enhanced functionality needed by waste haulers in residential, commercial and roll-off operations. The software solution is designed to manage the entire waste business—not just your books, routing and billing. The WasteBooks staff offers both experience and [...]

Carrie Fox King, President and co-founder of Aglow Systems, first realized the need and idea for a solar powered portable restroom light at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2008. According to King, “We started questioning why the port-a-potties didn’t have lights.” What began as a question, led to a more serious conversation, and eventually turned [...]

Project Manager for Aries Industries, Dick Schantz labels TV Inspection “a sleeper industry.” I couldn’t have said it better myself, and, in fact, that concept was what drew me to the topic in the first place. As a newcomer to the liquid waste industry, TV Inspection intrigued me, but I found it a facet of [...]

One out of four homes has a septic system, and manholes in the middle of a backyard can break up the landscape and prove to be an eye sore. Tanks need to be inspected and pumped on a regular basis to remove the accumulated layers of scum and sludge, and, therefore, the openings to the [...]

No one would call a family business a rarity in the septic pumping and portable restroom industries. By the same token, there are times when a family business includes a lot of people who aren’t related by blood, but by commitment, respect, trust and affection. When that happens, a company might just find itself in [...]

A lot of companies may promise a fast response time to their customers. But when an oil spill endangers a delicate waterway, or a company’s production grinds to a halt because of contamination, time is money—lots and lots of money. There is probably no other company that better exemplifies the need for fast, safe and [...]

Clean Harbors in Norwell, Massachusetts is one of the largest full service environmental firms in North America, boasting one hundred seventy-five locations, including fifty waste management facilities. They provide an array of services from industrial vacuuming to oil spill clean-up to dewatering. And Dana Aaronson, Vice President of Operations at Clean Harbors, knows all there [...]

Elite golf tournaments, pro-football training camps, and other special event contracts are the highpoint, the zenith, the Big Kahuna, so to speak, of the portable restroom world. Snagging a lucrative special event contract is tough; keeping one—and getting others—is even tougher. The competition is brutal, the clients are demanding, and the high-end equipment is expensive. [...]

We’ve all known of unlikely marriages between dissimilar individuals that grew into immensely loving, supportive, and successful partnerships—proving the doubters wrong and proving that they were probably short-sighted and misguided as well. Those spouses were clearly able to look deeper and see strengths and advantages to the union that others couldn’t.  We can imagine a [...]