About Waste-Away Group
We have been providing Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan businesses and organizations with quality trash and recycling services for over 80 years. We understand our community and can work with you to discover waste solutions that fit your needs, because we're a local provider. You can find containers at schools, manufacturing facilities, farms, grocery stores, small businesses, government agencies, and more!
Safety & Service First
We strive to assure complete safety of our employees, customers and public in everything we do. We have a granular focus on providing our valued customers the very best in customer service in a kind, courteous and effective manner.
Social & Environmental Focus
Customers appreciate our focus on having a high degree of social and environmental responsiblity. We have a track record of growing our services and business objectives in a disciplined way, taking pride in deploying resources intelligently, always taking care to benefit the communities we live and work in. These high ethical standards define our values, setting us apart from all others in our industry group, just as it has been from the very founding of our company.
Major Historical Milestones
In 1940, Charles Himes, Sr. formed our company in 1940 with a single truck. Much has changed since our founding in terms of technology and innovation, but the values of family stewardship have remained the same.
In 1966, the Himes family founded Himco Waste-Away Service, Inc., with Himco functioning on the commercial side of a blossoming waste hauling business, later offering commercial packer services to further expand the commercial lines of business.
In 1972, Himco began offering industrial roll-off services that catapulted the company as commercial waste hauler, with rapid expansion into new local and regional industrial/manufacturing markets.
In 1974, Waste-Away founded RecyclingWorks, Inc., which over the next 50 years became the premier recycling collection plant in Northern Indiana for environmentally responsible waste processing.
In 1990, the company continued its growth with a dramatic expansion of its customer support division to increase the breadth and depth of local and regional support services now locally housed in our Elkhart call center with 15+ dedicated customer support representatives.
In 2006, advanced GPS-monitoring systems into fleet operations to make on-the-fly changes to routes for drivers navigate day-to-day changes.
Recent Developments
Waste-Away has joined the Waste Connections family of companies which has provided an even greater level of commercial or industrial, waste or recycling solutions to serve residential, commercial and industrial services customers like never before. Now you can focus on your business without worries, and leave the waste to us!
Interested in seeing what we can do for you? Learn more now!