Oral history interview with Lonnie Poole, March 22, 1999 : interview I-0085, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Lonnie Poole describes the slow evolution of his waste management company from business plan to publicly traded corporation. Poole believed that he could earn a profit as a private waste manager and spent years trying to convince counties in North Carolina to cede control of their solid waste to him...

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Main Author: Poole, Lonnie, 1937- (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ive)
Corporate Authors: Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Documenting the American South (Project), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
Other Authors: Mosnier, Joseph (Interviewer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006
Edition:Electronic ed
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Summary:Lonnie Poole describes the slow evolution of his waste management company from business plan to publicly traded corporation. Poole believed that he could earn a profit as a private waste manager and spent years trying to convince counties in North Carolina to cede control of their solid waste to him. After a decade of lobbying, his efforts began to pay off, and Poole found his organization growing. Poole describes the elements that made meeting his goals difficult, the eventual success of his company, and some of the complicating factors--like environmentalism--that pose continued challenges
Item Description:Duration: 01:50:47
Interview participants: Lonnie Poole, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South
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