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The crew at Piedmont Disposal and Recycling includes, from left, Mack Long, Octavio Jarquin, Jeffrey Long, Lindley Jones, Jeff Rule, Debbie Shelton and Tim Gardner. Vacuum truck builders include Amthor International and Integrity Tank and pumps are from Masport.
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...