WESTBOROUGH – When E.L. Harvey incorporated in 1911, the business was focused on farming.
Then, in the late 1970s, the company turned its focus to the trash and recycling biz, adapting its 100-acre lot into one of the most sophisticated waste operations in Central Massachusetts. By the 2000s, E.L. Harvey’s business had officially “taken off.”
E.L. Harvey now has additional facilities in Fitchburg and Tyngsborough and has roughly quadrupled in size since 2012. In 2021, the business was acquired by Texas-based Waste Connections. While the business has grown considerably since its original farm operation, its commitment to Westborough has remained markedly the same.
“We have very close ties to the community from a business perspective, but a handful of us live here, too. I personally grew up in Westborough,” said Executive Vice President BJ Harvey. “It’s a great community to raise a family, it was great to be raised here. We want to be a great steward of the community – you want the community you’re in to be successful, and we want to be good neighbors.”
“We’ve always been there for the town – since 1945,” he added.
E.L. Harvey offers a slew of residential trash and recycling services – ranging from garbage pickup, bulky item disposal, and dumpsters – in addition to a variety of commercial options, meant for larger companies looking to dispose of waste. Whatever the scale, E.L. Harvey is able to help; the company has a “solution for every job, no matter the size,” according to its website.
What makes it all possible? “The people,” said Harvey.
“We’re extremely fortunate to have the best employees around, and that’s what makes this operation tick. They provide the service, and we’re extremely proud of that. That translates to the fact that we have really great customers as well. I think it starts with the people here at E.L. Harvey. There’s no industry out there that’s so reliant on their people, and we simply have the best,” he said.
Everyone has junk, but E.L. Harvey – with its three Westborough recycling plants that handle high-grade paper, construction-demolition recycling, and single-stream recycling – is here to help you out. The company services all areas in the Community Advocate coverage region.
“Everything goes through a pretty intense process of separating all that material out. You can look at a pile in the front and think it’s all trash, and you look at the back, and you’re like, ‘How did it get there?’ It’s still a pretty manual process with some automation involved,” said Harvey.
“There’s a lot of capital that goes into unscrambling the egg.”
For more on E.L. Harvey, visit https://www.elharvey.com/.
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