Turlock Scavenger

What Turlock Scavenger does

Turlock Scavenger is a privately held, for-profit solid waste management company headquartered in Turlock, California, founded in 1935 by Jesse Marchant. The company provides Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Solid Waste, Recycling, and Green Waste collection services, indicating a diversified service offering that spans municipal curbside collection, business waste contracts, and organics/yard waste handling for a defined local market.

The company operates with a workforce of 101-250 employees, which is consistent with a small-to-mid-sized regional hauler serving a single city and its surrounding industrial and commercial base. No technology stack, proprietary platforms, or product detail was disclosed in the available sources; the company's public website returned only a verification page with no substantive content. As a result, the technical and operational architecture (routing software, fleet management, customer billing platforms) cannot be characterized from the input data.

Its business model follows the standard U.S. municipal/private waste collection model: recurring route-based collection contracts with residential households (typically via municipal franchise or hauler license), commercial customers (dumpster/front-load service), and industrial accounts (roll-off and bulk hauling), supplemented by recyclable and green waste streams. Recycling and green waste lines may generate separate tipping-fee or commodity-revenue economics, but no pricing, contract structure, or unit economics are disclosed. The company is privately held with no public ticker, no disclosed funding rounds, and no identified parent or subsidiary relationships in the available data.

Name

Turlock Scavenger

Website

https://turlockscavenger.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1935

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Turlock Scavenger is a privately held solid waste, recycling, and green waste collection company founded in 1935, serving residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Turlock, California. The company employs 101-250 staff and operates as a single-territory municipal hauler with a 90-year operating history.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Waste Management Services

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Waste Collection (5621)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial & Commercial Waste Collection (Roll-off/Front-load) (IMAIAFAB)

Keywords

• Solid waste collection
• Recycling services
• Green waste removal
• Commercial waste management
• Industrial garbage collection

Headquarters

HQ city

Turlock

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Turlock Scavenger provides solid waste, recycling, and green waste collection services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the Turlock, California area. The company operates as a local waste hauler, picking up garbage, recyclables, and yard/green waste from households, businesses, and industrial sites on scheduled routes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Residential Solid Waste Collection

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Waste Management: Largest North American solid waste and recycling hauler. Comparable because it offers the same residential, commercial, and industrial collection services Turlock Scavenger provides, but at national scale across hundreds of markets including California.
• Republic Services: Major national solid waste and recycling company with substantial California operations. Directly comparable service lines — residential curbside, commercial front-load, and roll-off industrial collection — overlap almost entirely with Turlock Scavenger's offerings.
• Waste Connections: Large publicly-traded waste services company with a strong footprint in secondary and rural markets, including California. Comparable because it targets similar under-served or mid-sized markets with integrated solid waste and recycling collection.
• GFL Environmental: Major North American diversified waste services provider with significant U.S. operations including the West Coast. Comparable because it offers residential, commercial, and industrial solid waste and recycling collection across multiple states.

Direct peers

• Casella Waste Systems: Regional solid waste, recycling, and resource management company serving the northeastern U.S. Same core business model — vertically integrated collection, transfer, recycling, and organics services — at a comparable regional-hauler scale.
• Burrtec Waste Industries: California-based privately held waste hauler serving residential, commercial, and industrial customers with solid waste, recycling, and green waste services — essentially the same regional-hauler profile as Turlock Scavenger within the same state.
• Athens Services: Southern California-based family-owned waste and recycling company offering residential, commercial, and industrial collection including organics. Closely comparable in scale, ownership profile, and integrated service mix.
• Rumpke Consolidated Companies: Family-owned regional waste hauler serving Ohio, Kentucky, and surrounding states with residential, commercial, and industrial solid waste and recycling services. Same family-controlled, mid-sized regional-hauler archetype as Turlock Scavenger.
• EDCO Disposal Corporation: Southern California-based waste and recycling collection company serving residential and commercial customers. Directly comparable as a regional California hauler with similar municipal-franchise-driven service model.

Emerging players

• Clean Harbors: Environmental services company specializing in hazardous and industrial waste management. Overlaps with Turlock Scavenger's industrial customer base but operates in a more regulated, higher-margin niche adjacent to standard solid waste collection.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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