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.The project will make significant contributions to decarbonization, offsetting carbon emissions at the plant by an estimated 105,000 tons over the next quarter century – the equivalent of providing electricity for nearly 25,000 residential homes. Along with the solar installation, Veolia is taking several other initiatives to reduce its impact on the environment at Gum Springs, including a plan to reforest nearly 1,500 acres surrounding the property to sequester carbon emissions, provide protection for local habitat and prevent erosion.
To make room for the new solar panels, Veolia recently cleared a 30 acre lot across the street from the facility. The cleared timber, amounting to over 4,300 tons of mixed hardwood and pine timber, was harvested for building materials which sequester carbon.