Dive Brief:

• The Attorney General of Indiana plans to file suit against a waste hauler for "abruptly closing its doors after collecting upfront payments for residential trash service." 
• Customers began complaining after trash had not been collected in December. Tippecanoe Waste Removal Inc. maintains it did not walk away from its business and was trying to sell its assets to other waste companies.
• On January 1, Clinton County Disposal Service bought the customer accounts. Trash Kans LLC started handling the commercial accounts in January.

Dive Insight:

Owner Kurt Kanable says he attempted to find a way to transfer customer accounts to a company that would handle the payments that were made. He said that he tried to keep running the business, selling pieces of his company in order to continue providing services to paying customers that remained. Both companies that bought assets from Kanable said that they are honoring all customer prepayments.

Waste Management was involved to some extent, but a spokesperson said that it can not confirm or deny statements from Kanable. On January 10, the Tippecanoe Waste Removal Company's website alerted customers that all remaining customer accounts were transferred to Waste Management. Waste Management issued a press release, saying the company had not entered into a contract with Kanable's company.