Dive Brief:
- Winters Bros. Waste Systems, a family-owned waste and recycling company based in Westbury, CT, has acquired Progressive Waste Solutions Long Island operations in New York.
- The deal, inked on March 1, gives Winters Bros. hauling operations, seven recycling centers and eight transfer stations.
- Winters Bros. previously owned Progressive’s Long Island assets, which it sold in 2008.
Dive Insight:
Winter Bros. will now service 20,000 additional customers across Nassau and Suffolk counties in New York.
Joe Winters, the Chairman and CEO of Winters Bros. Waste Systems said, “The purchase of operations on Long Island creates a strong regional platform for our continued growth...we will be able to… increase the recycling infrastructure which is badly needed to advance recycling across Long Island.”