Let's Talk Trash

The action, though, is elsewhere on the floor, including at McNeilus Companies, where throaty techno music thumps and roars to draw attention to the new StreetForce line of garbage-truck bodies, and at Valvoline, where a huge slot-car setup has attendees waiting in line. Over and under it all is the soothing buzz of an industry fueled by America's most inexhaustible resource. Outside, in the massive entry hall, copies of Solid Waste Digest are going fast. The headline: INDUSTRY PREDICTIONS FOR 2002: MORE OF THE SAME, UNTIL THINGS BEGIN TO CHANGE.