From his earliest days, Mack Long remembers his father, Kevin, saying that he wasn’t building Piedmont Disposal and Recycling for himself — he was supporting a family, providing good employment for his workers, and offering a growing number of services for customers in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, area.
His father passed away from ALS – also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease – in 2019 at 52 years old, thrusting his son into a leadership role at the company at age 22. But four words from his father – “It’s not about me” – have continued to guide Long and inform the
