The drop-off center at 80th and MetcalfThanks to the tanking economy, the growing stream of recycled materials snapped up by hungry manufacturers in early 2008 has turned into a mountain of worthless trash entering 2009. Waste haulers, like Deffenbaugh Industries, have seen the market for recovered materials plunge to unprecedented lows. So it's no surprise that, in the New
When Kevin Straub was running for the Shawnee City Council in 2006, he took a $1,000 campaign contribution from Deffenbaugh Industries. But that, he says, doesn't mean he's in the pocket of the area's biggest trash hauler.
Kevin Straub​Quite the contrary.
In Shawnee, residents choose their trash hauler, signing up with one of the mom-and-pop outfits -- A-1 Disposal or Superior Disposal -- or the giant Deffenbaugh. Earlier this year, though, the city put together a task force to study new wa
