About Us
The
New Bedford Waste Services state-of-the-art facility was built by
the owners of ABC Disposal
Service, and is run by New Bedford Waste Services. ABC Disposal
Service, named after its founder, Arnold B. Camara, is a family
business with 50 trucks and 80 employees. Larinda Camara, Mr. Camara's
widow, is its president, while her three sons and daughter are company
vice presidents who run the business.
The facility employed about 25 people initially,
with a future capacity of up to 45 employees. Michael
Camara, President of ABC
Disposal Service, New
Bedford Waste Services, and Global
Technologies, traveled extensively to research ABC's new venture,
visiting similar facilities in Germany, Canada, Iowa, Florida, North
Carolina, Illinois and New Hampshire. He incorporated all of the
best qualities of these facilities, and learned from their
mistakes. Mr. Camara put together the final layout for the facility
on a plane while returning from Germany.
The facility works like this: trucks full of construction
debris or industrial waste unload their garbage on the plant's concrete
floor. A backhoe with a large claw attached grabs piles of debris,
and feeds it into an industrial chipper. The material runs along
a conveyer belt, where employees sort the material. A large magnet
hovers over the debris to pull out ferrous metals. Some material
enters a water-filled tank, where concrete and brick material sinks
to the bottom, and wood floats to the top. The facility is the largest
enclosed construction and demolition debris recycling facility in
New England.
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