JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — WM of Jacksonville opened its new $16 million facility that will be serving commercial and industrial customers in Duval County and residential and commercial customers in the City of Jacksonville Beach.
The new WM of Jacksonville facility at 6876 Greenland Industrial Boulevard includes a 14,000-square-foot two-story office building, a 30,000-square-foot maintenance area with an automated truck wash and a separate container building for the repair and storage of dumpsters.
151 employees will work at the site that will serve 60 commercial, industrial and residential routes. There is a gym for employees, the first at a WM facility corporatewide.
More than 50-percent of the site's fleet is fueled by compressed natural gas which is cleaner, reducing emissions of carbon monoxide by 75-percent and carbon dioxide by 25-percent while running at lower volumes to be quieter in the community.