Let’s Talk Trash! NOV/DEC 2017
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on an assignment in Africa. Luckily, I was able to go with him and spent my first year of high school in Cameron, Africa. How was school in Africa? It was great! We found a home school called the International School of Chang. There were 13 kids at the school and we would meet in
investigator with a canine unit, a member of the US Army narcotics unit, and in 1998 owned my own security company which I sold in 2002. What do you do now? Currently I work for Cash for Cans (CFC) where I go out and get trash to be repackaged and sold for cash. There’s money in trash when it is handled properly. I meet with companies that have solid waste that needs to be handled and removed. Actuallly, CFC turns trash into a commodity. For example, Nissan may have a lot of metal that needs to be disposed. We arranged
How much trash does CFC handle today? Well, we process tens of thousands of pounds of waste per year on over 100 combined acres in east Tennessee. We have grown from 75 tons of trash per day to over 300 to 350 tons per day. That’s a lot of trash and recyclables! Wow... Let me go back to your
the basement of my house 3 days a week. We did our actual school work and
experience in the narcotics division. What
advice would you give kids today about drugs?
then we did some social activities. There were kids from everywhere, like India and other parts of Africa. Did you go to College? I went to MTSU in Murfreesboro to major in political science, but later changed to criminal justice and earned a B.S. degree in Criminal Justice/Political Science from the University of the State of New York.
The advice I would strongly give to all kids is to be proud to stay away from them. Drugs take away your finances, your innerself, your character, and your happiness! Drugs are not fun, they ruin your life. Judd Matheny was once a kid just like you!
to pick it up and to take to our yard where it is cut up, repackaged, and sent to foundaries as core products. What is Cash for Cans? Back in 1989 the current owner of CFC began his business with a pickup truck with a cage. He would go around and collect cans from people to recycle for cash. That was 30 years ago! Today this pickup truck with a cage has grown into a multi-level recycling company worth over 15 million dollars servicing 130 businesses in 9 Tennessee counties and employs 80 people.
What jobs have you had? I was a police officer, drug
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