Waste Pro Sues Adams Sanitation (Again)

Waste Pro Gave Us (More) Lawsuits For Christmas This Year

Waste Pro's 'Sue Happy' About This

“Waste Pro sues Adams Sanitation.” It feels like that is the headline at least one day of the week now. For those who are keeping count, this is our humble little trash company’s fourth lawsuit with Waste Pro. Waste Pro, is a $900 million dollar company that claims to be the largest private trash company in America.  

What was our mortal sin this month? Asking politely for public records. That’s right, we had the audacity to ask Santa Rosa County for public records being held by Waste Pro.

Scales of Justice

Florida Man to Adams Sanitation's Rescue

Florida may get a lot of grief on the national stage with all the Florida Man stuff, but we do a few things right. Government in the Sunshine is one of them. As former supreme court justice Louis D. Brandeis said: “Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant.” Another pretty cool cat once said “Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe.” (That one came from Honest Abe Lincoln). 

 
On the other hand, Waste Pro’s lead lawyer has declared some interesting stuff. “Her tireless and often bold approach to defending professionals facing criminal charges emphasizes that the best defense is a good offense,” her law firm declares. Not exactly Brandeis or Lincoln but effective legal advice for uncalloused criminal hands I’m sure. 

Florida Man Doing Florida Man Stuff: Wrasslin Gators and defending the public’s right to government docuements.

Waste Pro Sues a lot of People - Including Adams Sanitation!

What to do when someone asks for records that might establish that your sweetheart no-bid contract is illegal, improper and ripping off unwary taxpayers? You go on the offense, of course.

Bury the little guy asking for the records in a mountain of litigation, a bold approach to be sure! 

Waste Pro might not like that cozying up to the County makes them subject to Florida’s public records laws. Not liking it will not change the law. Waste Pro decided to go on the attack to distract from their own bad acts. It is the quintessential “the best defense is a good offense” strategy. When Waste Pro and the County say that their no-bid contract was a great deal for the citizens, we aren’t buying it without seeing the proof and you shouldn’t either.  Like Paul Craig Roberts said: “A country whose population has been trained to accept the government’s word and to shun those who question it, is a country without liberty in its future.” 

To this point the citizens of Santa Rosa County haven’t shunned us, they’ve embraced us in our fight. Keep supporting us and we’ll keep fighting for fair, free and open government. Lawsuits be damned. 

Nathan Boyles - Adams Sanitation

Nathan Boyles is Adams Sanitation’s Legal and Business Development Manager. He also serves as Adams Sanitation’s resident ‘Florida Man’. Nathan Received his undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering and his Juris Doctorate from Florida State University. 

Dump Fees Are Up – Here’s What That Means For Your Trash Bill

Dump Fees Are Up – Here’s What That Means For Your Trash Bill Bottom line up front: Santa Rosa County has voted to increase the cost of dumping trash at the county landfill, which will result in a slight increase in trash service costs. However, Adams Sanitation will not raise rates until their annual increase next year, and the Santa Rosa County landfill is still significantly less expensive than neighboring counties. The increase will cost Adams Sanitation approximately $6,000 per month, but they plan to absorb the cost this year without raising customer rates. Santa Rosa County’s commissioners took a 3-1 vote to raise the cost of dumping trash at the county landfill in February, which means we will all have to end up paying a little bit more to get trash service or to run a trash business.  But there are some critical takeaways from the decision we want you to know about: 🙅 Adams Sanitation will NOT raise your trash rates over this until our annual increase subsequent January 💰It will cost us about $6,000 per month MORE to dump trash every month 💵 The Santa Rosa County Landfill is still significantly LESS EXPENSIVE than taking trash to our disposal facilities in neighboring counties.  🗣️ Tell your friends and neighbors about our excellent service! The more people who sign up with us, the more we can spread costs and keep your rates down! A sky view above the Santa Rosa County Landfill in East Milton. No rate increase right now for Adams Sanitation Customers. Last year, we had to raise rates mid-year due to a doubling of diesel costs. At the same time, this increase in dump fees is not put-us-out-of-business-if-we-don’t-raise-rates bad. We are going to absorb the costs this year. Our team has already had several meetings to determine how we will do that, but it’s been made clear it won’t be through raising your monthly rate.  The total cost for this increase is about 50 cents per customer and household per month and may impact our rate calculator next year. What this costs us The good news is that we can absorb the cost of the increased dump fees for the year. The bad news is that the increased cost will work out to about $50,000 this year alone – a lot of money for a small business like ours to absorb. The Santa Rosa County landfill is significantly less expensive than everyone else’s When we heard we were about to receive a bill of an extra $50,000 from the county, we did what any other red-blooded American would do when faced with a stressful situation – we shopped and price compared.  Believe me when I tell you, despite the price increase, we still have it pretty good in Santa Rosa County. Over in Okaloosa County, the cost to dump the same ton of trash is $75. To take our trash over there, we’d need to charge about an additional $6 per month plus the cost of diesel and labor. That stuff adds up quickly – and we’d soon be forced to charge exorbitant rates just to come and get your trash.  To the west, the Perdido Landfill charges $45.06 per ton, currently $3.00 more per ton than in Santa Rosa County – only six months more. But once you add in the $52 for diesel and $50+ for labor costs, you’re looking at another pretty steep price hike for the same service.  While we’re not thrilled about losing money to this price increase, it could be a lot worse – so, a little bit of a silver lining there. What can be done to keep costs down? The good news is that some factors are keeping our costs down this year! Diesel prices have dropped some as we have matured as a business.  We have been able to keep people around longer term at Adams Sanitation – which means we are running more efficiently. Our labor costs have dropped a bit because we are not constantly looking for new employees, burning them out with overtime, or paying more for overtime work (yay!).  We are also growing! More and more people are signing up daily to get the best trash service in town! That means we can increase our routes’ density- making us more efficient. The more efficient we are, the lower we can keep our prices while still paying decent wages for a (very) hard day of work and making a fair profit.  We still need help, though. If you feel that we’ve earned it – tell your friends, coworkers, neighbors, and family about the high level of service you get from Adams Sanitation. The more people we get to serve, the better off our customers, our local employees, and our small business!

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2 Comments

  • Karen Gogol

    You go ADAMS!! So many are supporting you in our desire to know the real truth. We are sick and tired of the BOCC living in the pockets of builders. What’s done in the dark will come out in the light. You, Adams Sanitation are the light. ??????♥️♥️

  • Christie N Parisi

    Still waiting with my can and will continue to do so as long the truth comes out. I’m looking forward to doing business with honest businessmen and women.

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