Pride Recycling Company

At Pride Disposal Company we want to keep our neighborhoods safe, clean, and friendly.

As a local, family-owned hauling and disposal company, we are deeply committed to our community because we live here, too! Working together, our families and businesses can greatly reduce waste, increase recycling - and take great pride in doing it.

Whatever you need, we're here for you — 24/7. We welcome your questions, value your feedback — and your business. Thank you!

Family Owned and Operated

Pride Disposal Company is a family owned business that has served the Sherwood, Tigard, and Washington County areas since 1986. We offer a full line of solid waste and recycling services for residential, commercial, multi-family and industrial customers.

Our family has been in the solid waste business since 1917 when Phillip Leichner (pictured) operated a route in Portland, Oregon. In 1937 Phillip purchased Clark County Disposal and the family moved to Vancouver, Washington.

Phillip’s four sons, Elmer, John, Robert and Lorry operated the business after his death. Lorry retired from Clark County Disposal in 1984. In 1986 Lorry’s son, Mike Leichner, purchased Frank's Disposal in Tigard and incorporated it as Pride Disposal Company. We’ve been in our current Sherwood location since 1987. The fourth generation of the Leichner family is active in the family business, continuing the tradition. 
 

We purchase the most modern, state-of-the-art equipment available in order to serve you better and give you the competitive rates and great service you deserve.

• Pride owns and maintains a fleet of over 40 trucks which are some of the most sophisticated on the road today. We have trucks suited for every type of collection and hauling that we do.

• Pride was one of the first haulers in Washington County to fully automate solid waste collection. From inside the cab, each driver controls the mechanical arm that reaches out, picks up, and dumps the curbside roll carts.

• There are five different computer systems onboard these trucks. They run everything from transmissions and engines to a mobile recording system that requires 2 GPS units. Routeware® system tells our drivers exactly what and where the next pick-up is, replacing paper route sheets with electronic data now fed directly to our office software.

• For safety and better customer service, five to six video cameras are mounted on each truck with a driver monitor. One camera is aimed toward the collection area, one at the truck's blind spot, one at the rear, one looks in the hopper to see what is coming out of the container, and one is aimed at the driver. What the camera views is digitally recorded for future reference.

• Since 2006, we have been using bio-fuels to operate all of our vehicles and equipment. Starting in 2010 we began updating our fleet to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates CNG reduces particulate matter emissions by 86 percent, carbon monoxide emissions by 80 percent, nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 32 percent, and greenhouse emissions by 25 percent. As an additional benefit, CNG trucks run 50 percent quieter than diesel trucks.

• The compaction bodies on our trucks use some of the same electronics and hydraulic controls that are used in the F-16 jets.

• Our vehicles operate with synthetic Hydrotex® Hydrosynthetic™ fluids and food-grade lubricants to eliminate known carcinogens, substantially reduce harmful exhaust emissions, increase fuel economy, increase the life and performance of our engines, and conserve valuable natural resources.