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How Technology Has Shaped Waste Operations and Code Enforcement

August 24, 2021

Via: Waste360

There’s no denying that advancements in technology have been the catalyst for operational efficiencies across virtually every industry.

Just 25 years ago, a cacophony of sounds from clickers to papers was commonplace in waste collection.

Michael Fernandez, director of Miami-Dade County Department of Solid Waste Management, describes the manual processes that kept operations afloat.

“The waste industry 25 years ago was really a more manual process with paperwork – tons of paperwork,” he explains. “I mean, you actually had to follow trucks. You had to go out there physically. There was really not much technology out there. We used to do all our routing on maps. You actually had to pin on the wall map every stop to understand if you’re overlapping routes.”

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