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Trash hauler sells SK residential accounts
By Liz Boardman/Independent Staff Writer
SOUTH KINGSTOWN - Narragansett Rubbish Removal has sold its South Kingstown residential business to Waste Haulers of Johnston, the company that manages the Rose Hill Regional Transfer Station. Narragansett Rubbish owner Gary Brierty notified customers by mail last week.
"We are still very active in Narragansett," Brierty said in an interview Monday. "But we were getting too big for me to know how to do my business."
By giving up South Kingstown residents, he can better serve the rest of his residential and commercial base, he said.
Talks between the two companies began before South Kingstown began exploring a single-hauler plan last year, Brierty said. But he and Butch Jencks - a principal in Waste Haulers who then owned Haul Away - took it off the table until the town decided where it was heading with local trash and recycling. They started talking again after bids for a single hauler proved too costly to justify the change, and the Town Council scrapped the plan.
"We are really excited, it's a great addition for us," said Pat Sperduto, owner of Waste Haulers. "In many cases, the drivers are doing double routes, circling back to talk to customers."
Waste Haulers now has approximately 2,000 residential customers in South County. Sperduto said they have been calling Brierty's customers to tell them about the change and to explain that they would now receive free recycling, a perk Brierty had not offered.
As of July 1, recycling will be mandated by town ordinance. Public Services Director Jon Schock said town officials are writing the draft ordinances, which should go to Town Council for a public hearing in April or May.
Brierty made it clear the recycling mandate was not his tipping point, so to speak.
"It was a total choice," he said. "In giving up South Kingstown, I can focus on Narragansett. And Waste Haulers is set to recycle sooner than I would be."
Waste Haulers will offer alternating week recycling - blue bin one week, green bin the next - which will be picked up by an automated truck, once the town's 64-gallon recycling toters are available to residents.
It also will offer a new low-cost trash option, for people who recycle heavily or don't generate much trash. For $17.95 a month, they can fill one 35-gallon toter (64- or 96-gallon toters are standard) weekly.
The town has certified the South Kingstown customer rolls for RPE Waste Services, Waste Haulers (including the Narragansett Rubbish accounts) and Allied Waste, so those businesses can tip their South Kingstown trash at the Central Landfill in Johnston at the town's cheaper municipal rate.
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