Meridian Waste acquires NC hauling firm

The Meridian Waste North Carolina LLC business unit of Meridian Waste has announced the asset acquisition of Foothill Waste Solutions LLC of Sandy Ridge, North Carolina.

The acquisition expands Meridian’s footprint in the Research Triangle Region, says Meridian, adding commercial frontload, permanent and temporary roll-off and residential hauling routes to the company’s operations in that region.

Also added to the Meridian Waste portfolio is Foothill Waste’s existing hauling facility in Sandy Ridge, where Meridian says it will house the administrative and maintenance functions servicing the newly acquired customers and accounts.  

Meridian Waste describes the acquired collection footprint as including parts of Forsyth, Guilford, Rockingham, Stokes and Surry Counties in North Carolina.

“Additionally, the Towns of King, Mayodan, Bethania, Danbury, Walnut Cove and the Village of Tobaccoville’s exclusive residential contracts are now being serviced by Meridian Waste,” states the firm.

Meridian says Foothill Waste’s former owners, Justin and Jeffrey Shelton, will remain with Meridian Waste managing the hauling operations based in Sandy Ridge, “ensuring a smooth transition for Meridian Waste’s new commercial and residential customers.”

Additional Foothill Waste staff members, including office staff, drivers, mechanics and operational support staff, also have also transitioned to becoming Meridian Waste employees, says the acquiring company.

“We have found North Carolina to be an incredibly strong region for Meridian Waste,” says Walter Hall, CEO of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Meridian.

“The opportunities our team has been able to uncover, purchase, site, improve upon and/or expand have created an advantageous competitive position for Meridian Waste, which ultimately benefits our customers by ensuring a fully integrated solid waste management program where we can manage our customers’ environmental services from beginning to end, focusing on safe, responsible and quality customer service operations,” adds Hall.

Meridian Waste says the Foothill transaction is its 33rd acquisition since the company transitioned to private equity ownership by Jacksonville, Florida-based Warren Equity Partners in April 2018.

The company says it now operates in Florida, Missouri, the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia, servicing more than 520,000 residential, commercial, industrial and government customers. In addition to a fleet of commercial, residential and roll-off trucks, the company operates 31 hauling operations sites, eight transfer stations or material recovery facilities (MRFs), three municipal solid waste landfills, and four construction and demolition (C&D) landfills that collectively handle more than 1.1 million tons of waste and recyclables annually.