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Managing Trash Crown Waste & Recycling Systems handles it all BY » Jeff Winke | PHOTOGRAPHY BY » Lisa Crates
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very person and business in the country contributes to it near daily. It’s big business. There is no escape. We’re talking the generation, collection, and disposal of garbage... waste... trash. It is inevitable, unavoidable. We live, consume, and produce garbage. It is an outcropping of living. As of 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calculated that 4.9 pounds per person per day of municipal solid waste is generated-that’s a lot of accumulating trash on the nonstop conveyor belt of life. It is what happens as life progresses forward. In this whirlwind, enter Giovanna Antonacci, owner of 16 LimitlessMagOnline.com | January 2022
Crown Waste & Recycling Systems LLC located in Huntersville. She knows and understands. “We are a full-service waste management company serving the Charlotte-Lake Norman area,” Giovanna Antonacci said. “This means we provide roll-off dumpster service, residential waste and recycling removal, commercial waste and recycling removal... really, any waste needs you have, we are here to help!” A roll-off is an open-top dumpster characterized by a rectangular footprint, using wheels to roll it off a truck and in place. How did Antonacci get involved in what has traditionally been a
male dominated industry? “I got involved because Crown Waste is a family business. My grandparents started it in 1958 in New York City. My father then took it over. My brothers and I are third generation. We now operate in New York City and North Carolina,” Antonacci stated. “A few years ago my brothers and I saw a niche market need in the Charlotte area for waste removal and we decided to expand our company to be a multi-state operation. It honestly, was one of the best decisions yet!” This woman-owned private sanitation company is less than 3-years old as far as North Carolina knows, of course it is much older
