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BFI was founded in Houston, Texas.The company was initially known as American Refuse Systems, and it opened its first landfill in 1968. The company soon became the first waste hauler on the New York Stock Exchange, after purchasing the Browning-Ferris Machinery Company, and changing their name to Browning-Ferris Industries.
After purchasing Houston-based giant waste hauler Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) in 1999, together with private equity firms the Blackstone Group and Apollo Management, [1] Allied Waste Industries, Inc. became the second largest non-hazardous solid waste management company in the United States (behind industry leader Waste Management, Inc ...
Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) had been the dominant provider of roll-off trash collection services in the Burlington, Vermont market since it entered the roll-off market in 1976. Joseph Kelley was a district manager for BFI until 1980, when he left to found his own company, Kelco Disposal.
The facility will process all of the commercial waste generated by businesses in San Jose. Newby Island houses the local hauling company, recyclery, composting facility and landfill. [9] In 2014, Allied Waste submitted a permit to increase the capacity enough to hold 245 towering feet msl of trash from the current allowed height of 150 feet (46 m).
Allied Waste Industries: 1988-2008 Arizona USA: 6.230 (2007) Biffa: 1912 High Wycombe United Kingdom: 2.794 1.163 (2020) Bingo Industries: 2017 Sydney Australia: 340 36 (2019) Biogen UK: 2005 Milton Ernest United Kingdom: 25.8 (2020) Browning-Ferris Industries: 1968-1999 Texas USA: Casella Waste Systems: 1975 Rutland USA: 660 (2018) Cleanaway ...
Energy industry corporations began moving to west Houston in the 1970s, seeking land for suburban office campuses and proximity to new housing developments. [4]Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) had its headquarters in the district until its acquisition by Allied Waste in 2000.
Houston based Browning-Ferris Industries attempted to swallow the company whole in 1982. Many inside the company questioned if this would work. SCA had rejected an offer by Waste Management in 1977, and this was no different. What would have amounted to an $210 million deal, was rejected by the company.
On April 20, 2006, Tyanna and Jeff Cannata of West Chicago, filed a class action lawsuit [4] against the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, the owner of the Mallard Lake landfill, and Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI), operator of the landfill, claiming that the landfill was the source of a carcinogenic contaminant, vinyl chloride, found ...