MACKINAC ISLAND (WWJ) — Hundreds of thousands of Metro Detroiters will soon be getting a new garbage pick-up provider.
Priority Waste is set to become the largest residential provider of garbage pickup in the state of Michigan as the company will buy a large number of residential garbage contracts from GFL Environmental next month, WWJ’s Charlie Langton reported from the Mackinac Policy Conference.
Priority will be purchasing 73 municipal contracts from GFL, encompassing about 500 trucks and 800 employees, according to Langton.
The green GFL trucks often seen around Metro Detroit will soon become yellow Priority trucks. Langton reports the deal is expected to be finalized on June 30.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Priority Waste, founded in 2018, has quickly risen to the top of the industry, but CEO Todd Stamper said he didn’t do it alone.
“It started off with, ‘hey, let’s buy a garbage truck to do our own work,’ and next thing you know, you’re the largest provider in the state in a very short window,” Stamper said at the Mackinac Policy Conference. “So when you do things right and you have fun with what you’re doing and you have a bunch of great people behind you, it makes it easy. This isn’t Todd, this is a bunch of people — men and women that work really hard and I appreciate each and every one of them.”
The move is expected to impact about 700,000 residents across Metro Detroit.