Dive summary:

• Waste Management is looking to revise its franchise agreement with the city of Reno, Nevada but smaller waste haulers in the area say the proposed changes would force them out of business.
• The most criticized part of the agreement would give Waste Management exclusive hauling zones, which would force the smaller waste haulers to split up a tiny area not large enough to sustain them.
• Waste Management has also experienced a decline in revenue, this agreement would help them recover but if it goes through the six smaller companies probably wouldn’t survive.

From the article:

About a half dozen small independent trash haulers are objecting to Waste Management’s proposal to revise its franchise agreement with the city of Reno.

The small business owners said that Waste Management’s and Castaway Trash Hauling proposed agreement to create exclusive commercial hauling zones would put them out of business.

The issue goes before the City Council at its meeting today. ...