Tuesday, July 28, 2026

TUESDAY — TECHNOLOGY & WORK

“Almost invisible when everything works well—but everyone notices immediately when it stops.”

— Ryan Brettell, Owner, Reliable Sanitation & Recycling

Your bin empties overnight and the curb looks untouched by breakfast. Behind that vanishing act sits a machine weighing up to 60,000 pounds, a hydraulic compaction cycle repeated hundreds of times a day, and a route optimized against traffic, tonnage, and haul distance. The most sophisticated systems are often the ones nobody has a reason to look at. To learn more, Check out the article How do garbage trucks work? Then, for even more, Check out my AI for the C Suite® discussion with Evan Schwartz, Chief Innovation Officer at AMCS Group where we discuss where the algorithms are showing up in waste and recycling.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad