All American Waste

What All American Waste does

All American Waste is a regional waste management and recycling services company headquartered in Enfield, Connecticut, operating since 1974 under the legal entity All American Waste, LLC. The company serves four primary customer segments — residential, commercial, contractor, and municipal — across the Northeast US, offering curbside waste and recycling collection, dumpster rentals in multiple sizes, food waste/organics recycling, confidential material handling, construction and demolition debris management, cart cleaning, LEED-compliant construction waste management, and municipal collection programs. The company also generates revenue by selling recycled landscaping products, including decorative wood chips, top soil, reprocessed concrete, recycled roof shingles, wood fiber animal bedding, and crushed red brick.

The company's core technical asset is its Material Recovery Facility (MRF), described as one of North America's largest and most technologically advanced recycling systems, jointly operated with affiliated partner USA Waste & Recycling. The MRF enables single-stream recycling, allowing customers to place all accepted recyclables into one bin. It is equipped with Greyparrot's AI-powered material analyzers, which use computer vision to identify materials on conveyor belts in real time, generating structured quality control data used to adjust sorting operations and improve efficiency. This AI deployment was featured in a CBS News segment in November 2025 that generated over 40 million nationwide impressions.

The business model is primarily direct-to-consumer, with revenue generated through recurring subscription-based curbside collection services for residential and commercial customers, one-time and project-based dumpster rental fees, hardware sales of recycled landscaping products, and specialty add-on services such as confidential material handling. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Customers are acquired and serviced through multiple channels: a phone-based sales and support line (800-826-7952), SMS/text-based ordering, a dedicated online dumpster ordering portal (dumpsters.allamericanwaste.com), and a customer account management portal (myaccount.aawllc.com). The company employs between 251 and 500 people, with awards including Recycling Facility of the Year and 2021 Best Places to Work in CT.

Name

All American Waste

Legal name

All American Waste, LLC

Website

https://aawllc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

All American Waste is a Connecticut-based waste management and recycling company serving residential, commercial, contractor, and municipal customers across the Northeast with curbside collection, dumpster rentals, food waste recycling, and one of North America's largest AI-powered Material Recovery Facilities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Waste Management and Recycling Services

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Waste Collection (56211)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial & Office Waste Collection (Non-hazardous) (EUAIAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Solid Waste & Recycling Services Administration (BPAIACAH)

Keywords

• Waste management services
• Recycling services
• Dumpster rentals
• Single stream recycling
• Construction demolition debris

Headquarters

HQ city

Enfield

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Residential Waste Collection Services: Recurring curbside waste and recycling pickup services for residential customers, including cart cleaning service and curbside waste & recycling collection.
2. Commercial Waste & Recycling Services: Ongoing waste and recycling solutions for businesses including confidential material handling, construction & demolition services, and food waste recycling.
3. Dumpster Rentals: One-time and ongoing dumpster rental services for residential, commercial, and contractor projects of various sizes. Customers schedule drop-off and pick-up service.
4. Recycled Landscaping Materials: Sale of recycled landscaping products including decorative wood chips, top soil, clean fill, reprocessed concrete, recycled roof shingles, wood fiber animal bedding, and decorative crushed red brick.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

All American Waste provides curbside waste and recycling collection, dumpster rentals, single stream recycling processing at its Material Recovery Facility (MRF), food waste recycling, construction & demolition debris management, confidential material handling, LEED construction waste management, cart cleaning, and recycled landscaping products for residential, commercial, contractor, and municipal customers across Connecticut.

Product overview

All American Waste is a regional waste management and recycling company offering a comprehensive suite of services across residential, commercial, and contractor segments. The company's core portfolio includes curbside trash and recycling collection, dumpster rentals in multiple sizes, and single stream recycling processed at their advanced Material Recovery Facility (MRF). Additional services span food waste/organics recycling, confidential material handling, construction and demolition debris management, cart cleaning, and municipal programs. The company also produces and sells recycled landscaping materials including decorative wood chips, reprocessed concrete, top soil, recycled roof shingles, wood fiber animal bedding, and crushed brick. Their LEED construction waste management services help contractors meet sustainability certification requirements. The MRF, operated as a joint venture (USA Waste & Recycling and All American Waste), is positioned as one of North America's largest and most technologically advanced recycling facilities, incorporating AI-powered material analyzers for real-time sorting quality control.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• All American MRF: State-of-the-art Material Recovery Facility operated by All American Waste for single stream recycling processing.

Products and services

• Curbside Waste & Recycling

Quantifiable outcome

• 40 million+ nationwide impressions from CBS News feature on AI recycling technology

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• GreyparrotcoreTechnology or IntegrationGreyparrot provides AI-powered material analyzers installed in the All American MRF (Material Recovery Facility). The analyzers use AI to identify materials going through the MRF in real time, providing quality control information used to adjust operations and improve efficiency. Greyparrot founder Ambarish Mitra visited the Connecticut facility and worked with the All American crew.
• Murphy Road RecyclingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConnected with Greyparrot for a CBS News feature on AI-powered recycling technology. Murphy Road Recycling facilitated the introduction to Greyparrot whose analyzers were installed at the All American MRF.
• USA Waste & RecyclingcoreOthersParent company or sister company. Team members from USA Waste & Recycling and All American Waste participate together in community events such as the Source to Sea Cleanup along the Connecticut River. The companies share logos and branding (All American Waste, LLC is associated with USA Waste & Recycling). Award 'Recycling Facility of the Year' appears to be from USA Waste & Recycling.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Casella Waste Systems: A publicly-traded regional waste hauler headquartered in Vermont with deep Northeast U.S. operations. Like All American Waste, Casella runs integrated solid waste, recycling, and disposal services with significant Materials Recovery Facility infrastructure, making it the most direct comparable in scale, geography, and operating model.
• USA Waste & Recycling: Affiliated/parent organization to All American Waste, sharing branding, joint community initiatives, and the 'Recycling Facility of the Year' award. Operates a similar Connecticut-anchored waste and recycling model with the joint MRF as a shared asset, making it the closest operational peer.
• Murphy Road Recycling: A Connecticut-based recycling and waste services peer that introduced All American Waste to Greyparrot for the CBS News feature. Operates in the same regional market with overlapping single-stream recycling and commercial waste services, making it a direct regional competitor.
• Casella Recycling: The recycling division of Casella Waste Systems, operating multiple MRFs across the Northeast with single-stream capabilities. Directly comparable to All American Waste's MRF business, including similar commodity exposure and quality-control technology investments.

Broad incumbents

• WM (Waste Management): The largest waste and environmental services provider in North America, offering residential, commercial, and municipal collection plus recycling and disposal. It competes with All American Waste on municipal contracts in Connecticut and surrounding states, but as a broad incumbent with national scale rather than a regional specialist.
• Republic Services: A Fortune 500 national waste hauler providing collection, recycling, and disposal services across the U.S. Republic competes with All American Waste for commercial and municipal accounts in the Northeast, with substantially larger routing density and capital resources.
• Waste Connections: A major North American waste services company with a strong presence in secondary markets and the Northeast. It offers residential, commercial, and roll-off services comparable to All American Waste's portfolio, but at significantly greater scale following its 2024 Stericycle acquisition.
• Reworld (formerly Covanta): A large-scale materials processing and waste-to-energy operator with recycling and organics processing capabilities. Comparable to All American Waste's MRF operations in the downstream disposal and recovery segment, though focused on energy-from-waste rather than residential collection.

Emerging players

• Bin There Dump That: A residential-focused dumpster rental franchise with a smaller-truck model targeting homeowners and small contractors. Comparable to All American Waste's dumpster rental segment, though operating through a franchise model with lower direct route density than a regional hauler.

Regional players

• GreenWave Recycling Solutions: A regional single-stream recycling operator in the Northeast U.S. with comparable MRF infrastructure and commercial recycling services. Operates in overlapping geography with All American Waste and competes for similar commercial and municipal recycling volumes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/AllAmericanWasteLLC
• Xx.com/AAWLLC

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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