The Great Waste Blog

Guides, tips, and stories from the Great Waste team — serving South Florida since 1976.

Angela, Amanda and Amber Piccinonna sitting together on the lowered front-loader arms of a pink Great Waste garbage truck carrying the Paulie the Great White Shark mascot, in front of a colorful painted mural

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The Piccinonna Legacy: Fourth Generation

Three sisters, one family business: how Carlo's daughters Angela, Amanda and Amber became the Garbage Girls and the fourth generation carrying the Piccinonna legacy forward.

Carlo Piccinonna and his three daughters standing together in front of a pink Great Waste front-loading garbage truck carrying the Paulie the Great White Shark mascot, outside the company service yard

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The Piccinonna Legacy: Third Generation

From Carlo's Trash Hauling in 1982 to the family conversation that created Great Waste & Recycling Services in 2011 — the third generation built, rebuilt, and never let adversity decide where the story ended.

A weathered black-and-white photograph of two young men in white t-shirts standing shoulder to shoulder in front of a loaded rear-loading garbage truck

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The Piccinonna Legacy: Second Generation

Giulio's son took the family deeper into hauling — founding Julios Carting on Long Island and turning one man's livelihood into a family tradition.

A horse-drawn Knickerbocker Ice wagon loaded with large ice blocks makes a delivery on a early-1900s Brooklyn street, with a driver at the reins and pedestrians and shopfronts lining the cobblestone road

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The Piccinonna Legacy: First Generation

Four generations, one family story: how Giulio Piccinonna's work as a Brooklyn ice man laid the foundation for what would become Great Waste.