Waste Management Hits Home Run with Peoria Chiefs

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lthough Major League Baseball is A affectionately called “The Show,” nothing quite matches the far more intimate and, some would say, “authentic” experience of Minor League Baseball in smaller cities and towns. To keep that experience special, Minor League stadium owners must ensure their facilities remain as neat and litter free as any big city sports complex. The Peoria Chiefs of Peoria, Ill., are a Class A farm team affiliated with the big-league Chicago Cubs. A member of the Midwest League (MWL), which also includes teams from Iowa, Michigan and Management also showed an eagerness to support Wisconsin, the Chiefs moved into their new the team through corporate sponsorships, downtown stadium, O’Brien Field, in spring 2002. becoming a founding partner in O’Brien Field and helping to underwrite special promotions and Prior to the move, the events at the ballpark that coincided with Waste “Waste Management plays an Chiefs played their Management’s Peoria Market Area business important role not only with the Chiefs, games in a ballpark that strategy. was part of Peoria’s park but with the community as a whole. system. In contrast to In spring 2002, Waste Management began its waste It’s been an absolutely wonderful the informal and at collection program by installing one 34-yard self- contained roll-off compactor and forty 96-gallon partner in this market.” times untidy facility used in the past, the wheeled carts for spectator waste. The company team wanted their new also provided 30 cardboard collection boxes for Mark Moehlenkamp each game, placed strategically throughout the Vice President facility to be as well tended as possible. ballpark to meet the specific needs of each event. Peoria Chiefs Among other The Peoria Chiefs celebrated the move to their new considerations, this stadium by becoming the MWL’s 2002 league meant finding a waste services company that had champions. And Waste Management was with the capacity to handle the them every step of the way, helping every day to large volumes of waste produced by the team’s keep their new venue as clean and litter free as it fans and to remove that waste in a consistent and was on opening day. efficient manner. Waste Management fit that bill perfectly. The company had years of experience serving major Whether it’s for sports stadiums sports venues throughout Illinois, plus its recent or any other kind of business, Service Machine program guaranteed, in writing, Waste Management delivers that service would be performed on time and up to major league service every time. — or beyond — the team’s expectations. Waste

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