The City of Edgewood, Florida has awarded Houston-based FCC Environmental Services the contract for the collection of solid urban waste for up to 20 years. The contract is also inclusive of the franchise to collect all the City´s commercial solid waste.
Edgewood is located in Orange County, where the company already provides services, and has a significant presence with a large yard and its own Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) station, the fleet for this new contract will share the same depot and will also be gas powered. FCC Environmental Services continues its commitment to sustainability, with significant environmental advantages and providing important operational synergies to the contract.
With this, FCC Environmental Services consolidates its presence in the state of Florida, where it provides services to more than one million inhabitants, including the waste collection service in Palm Beach, Florida.
FCC's facilities in Omaha, Nebraska, including a new CNG supply station, have been already commissioned. The Omaha waste collection contract will start in November. The services that FCC will provide to this city reach a potential backlog of more than $500 million and will serve its more than 450,000 inhabitants over the next 20 years.
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