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337: Chad Pregracke—America's Hardest Working Garbage Man

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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How to Keep Your People Safe in a Lockout

I'm proud of what hasn't happened you know and why it hasn't happened that's exactly. I think we spent over the last like I don't 12 or 13 15 years whatever 349 thousand dollars that we could have put back into our operation to move it forward but instead we're spending that to just take the plastics and throw them into the landfill. That was just mind boggling something my wife and I like there has to be a better way. We bought an old tractor plant they made tractor cabs for caterpillar and John Deere which caterpillar's sponsors well just thrown it in there. And so we're making pallets now very heavy duty industrial strength plastic pallets out

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