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Garbage haulers glad to see ownership changes eyed by big firms
Cedar Rapids garbage operators fear larger buyers like Waste Management and Browning Ferris could create near monopolies as private haulers face rising equipment costs and a landfill future. Watts Trucking and Cedar Rapids Clean Up deny ties to big groups while watching bids and rumors in a shifting market.
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Cedar Rapids
Watts Trucking
Rock Island
Struchen's
Cedar Rapids Clean Up Co
E.E. Martin
Bill Fritz
Fritz
Waste Management, Inc
Oak Brook
Ill
Browning Ferris
BFI
Houston
Iowa
Jim Watts
Joe Serafino
New
Watts
Davenport
Muscatine
West Liberty
Quad Cities
Serafino
Schaffron
Herbert B. Schaffron
Copiague
N.Y
Ing
Woodward
Strachen
Marion
Browning-Ferris
The
Gazette
E. E. Martin
C. W. Halls
Martin
Halls
Jim Spizzirri
Robert Drenth
Spizzirri
Drenth
Black Hawk Waste
Waterloo
Maryland
Donald Canney
Canney
City Hall