TAM Waste Management Inc
171 Church Street, P.O. Box 421, Pownal , Vermont, United States

TAM Waste Management serves all your needs for residential and commercial waste hauling, recycling, demolition, and commercial organic composting. We serve many communities in southern Vermont, northern Berkshire County, MA and eastern New York state. We’ve been in business since 1996, ready to meet your waste management needs no matter how large or small. You…

History

In 1996, Trevor A. Mance was a senior at Mount Anthony Union High School, and worked at the Town of Shaftsbury Landfill on weekends. When he started a weekend hauling route in Shaftsbury with a major leap of faith and a beat up old one ton truck, TAM was born. After high school, Trevor expanded with a route in Bennington and hired his first employee, Joseph Maguire. Joseph is still with TAM today, driving one of the five roll-off trucks. In the early days, advertising consisted of handing out handmade pamphlets from a mo-ped, and maintenance on the trucks often included coat hangers and duct tape!

Trevor continued to grow his business while commuting to Hudson Valley Community College and then to Sienna College. This often meant driving the garbage truck to the burn plant to be emptied in Hudson Falls, NY, and then taking it in to class. Routes were picked up either in the morning before classes or late in the evening after classes were finished.

Trevor-truckIn 2003, TAM embarked on a monumental expansion by starting the permitting process to open a recycling center and transfer station. Four years later, in 2007, this became a reality. The transfer station was opened to help keep transportation costs down by combining multiple loads into one larger load. Along with better efficiency, the transfer station has allowed TAM to keep disposal costs down by recycling as much material as possible.

Today, TAM has grown into a hauling company with fifteen trucks and a family of twenty five of the hardest working people around. The old one ton truck has been replaced by a fleet of new “real” garbage trucks. Trevor’s on-the-road repairs have been replaced with a “real” mechanic. However, the philosophy of providing an exceptional service at a reasonable price has never changed. TAM is proud to be a local company, proud to employ local folks and most of all, proud to serve our customers.

TAM Organics Logo 300x200In 2012 TAM Inc. initiated a facility in Bennington for recycling organic materials (composting), such as yard debris, food waste, wood chips and manures. It initially served commercial food waste producers, but will expand to accommodate additional customers as the project develops. In its first operating year, 2014, TAM processed 465 tons of food scrap into rich composted soil for the following spring.

TAM Recycle logo 300x200In 2014, TAM Inc, opened a facility in Pownal to process recycled inorganic materials, and for shipping recycling and construction and demolition debris to appropriate end users. In the past, all TAM recycling was shipped to a sorting facility in New York State. Now, these jobs stay in the local community, helping build the local economy.

RECYCLING

TAM offers free Single Stream Recycling bins with your residential service.

For your convenience, you can print and save this handy Recycling Quick Reference.  Everything needs to be clean.  Depending on your volume, you can choose the pickup frequency that best works for you. TAM also recycles scrap metals- call about specific content and pricing.

TAM offers our commercial customers Single Stream Recycling as well as Composting for Organics that meets new VT requirements.

For your convenience, you can print and save the Recycling Quick Reference for recycling and trash, or the 3-way Recycle/Compost Quick Reference, which includes food scraps (see below). Everything needs to be clean. Depending on your volume, you can choose the pickup frequency that best works for you. TAM also recycles scrap metals- call about specific content and pricing.

TAM now operates its own Recycling Center.

We have expanded our operations to Pownal VT, where we sort recyclables. In the past, we shipped mixed recyclables to a sorting facility in NY. Now those jobs support the local economy, and the sorting is done in Pownal. Construction and demolition debris is shipped from this rail terminal as well.

WHY RECYCLE?

TAM Inc. has built it’s business on the concept of recycling from the very beginning. As all natural resources become more scarce and landfills fill up, TAM Inc. is proud to offer our leadership in “going green with garbage.” Recycling lets us reduce our waste by up to 80%, which really adds up when you consider that just 1 ton of paper takes up 2 cubic meters of landfill.

We are meeting Vermont’s new higher standards for recovering reusable materials from the public waste stream and putting them back to good use. These standards will mandate more recycling and composting each year through 2020, when they will be fully implemented.

Demolition

TAM Inc. offers quick and complete demolition services, with prompt and total site cleanup and waste disposal. Call us for a free estimate on your job today.We properly dispose of construction and demolition debris at our own TAM Recycling Center in Pownal, Vermont.

What Not to Compost:

• Plastics such as wrappers, bags, straws and packaging
• Paper napkins, towels or wrappers
• Fruit and vegetable PLU stickers
• Commercial flowers, lawn clippings or plant debris from roadways (likely to have chemical pesticides, fertilizers or other contamination)
• All recyclables, such as cardboard and boxboard, plastics #1-7, aluminum and tin cans, bottles and clean office paper. (TAM will pick your recyclables up too, in a separate container.)