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Jeremiah Gardner

58:31 - 59:17

“to remind the community that you can save yourself a lot of money if you recycle and you take care of as much of your own waste as you can to remind business owners you can work a little harder and move those roll carts around instead of renting a dumpster. Um, everybody's feeling the costs rise intensely right now, but I'm not sure we have much choice.”
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I started thinking about these commercial rates, and then I started thinking about items in my own store that, um, have gone up 30, 40%, and it's completely out of control. And I filled up my diesel truck the other night for $200, and my diesel truck is much smaller than the truck being used to haul this stuff. And, um, to remind the community that you can save yourself a lot of money if you recycle and you take care of as much of your own waste as you can to remind business owners you can work a little harder and move those roll carts around instead of renting a dumpster. Um, everybody's feeling the costs rise intensely right now, but I'm not sure we have much choice. I'm not really, really happy about it, but I do hope that we have a culture of community with our contractor, and if we're able to save some money on this down the road and they find that we're spending less because the community is recycling, then hopefully Alaska Waste would reciprocate.