Recology, an employee owned resource recovery company, has acquired Sunset Garbage Collection Inc. of Portland, Oregon.
The local hauling company, which employs 12 full time workers, is now Recology Clackamas. It serves 1,600 residential addresses in southeast Portland and 4,000 residential and commercial customers in Clackamas County. The operation also provides drop boxes and containers and collects food scraps from restaurants and other food-related businesses.
The sale included 18 collection vehicles, a 1.23 acre truck yard, and offices at 9035 Henderson St. in Portland.
Chris Carey, general manager of Recology’s Northern Oregon Operations, will oversee Recology Clackamas. Shawn LaMont is the operations manager.
Sunset Garbage, founded in 1919 by John Guinazzo, began as a one-man route in lower southeast Portland. It branched out in 1934 to serve a country trailer park on SE 82nd and Harney then continued to grow.
