Meridian Waste acquires WCA's Knoxville hauling assets

Meridian Waste, an integrated, non-hazardous solid waste services company based in Greensboro, Georgia, has announced it purchased the hauling assets of Waste Corporation of Tennessee LLC (WCA) in the Knoxville, Tennessee marketplace.

The assets include vehicles, containers and customer contracts.  The acquired assets will be housed out of Meridian Waste’s newest hauling location at 6236 Rutledge Pike in Knoxville, 2.7 miles south of the Poplar View Landfill, which Meridian acquired from Knoxville Landfills LLC in November.  

“Adding rolling stock and collection operations to our Knoxville market will allow us to internalize waste into our Class III disposal sites at Riverside Landfill and Poplar View Landfill,” says Wally Hall, CEO of Meridian Waste.  “Now that we are vertically integrated in the Knoxville market, we look forward to providing a full service solution to our customer base, and our new customers can be confident that we will provide uninterrupted service post-acquisition.”

This purchase represents the seventh acquisition of Meridian Waste since it was acquired by Jacksonville, Florida-based Warren Equity Partners in April 2018.

Meridian Waste’s core business is centered on residential, commercial and industrial non-hazardous waste collection and disposal. Currently, the company operates in St. Louis; Richmond, Virginia; Blacksburg, Virginia; Augusta, Georgia; Macon, Georgia; Northeast Florida; and Knoxville. The company services over 143,000 residential, commercial, industrial and governmental customers. In addition to a fleet of commercial, residential and roll-off trucks, the company operates one transfer station, three recycling facilities, three municipal solid waste landfills and two construction and demolition landfills in which 955,800 tons of waste are safely disposed of annually.