Leck Waste Services

The year was 1968, and Walter Leck was seventeen years old and working as a farm hand on a local farm. One day the owner of a local trash company in Newtown, Pennsylvania approached him. The owner asked Walter if he would be interested in working as a laborer on the back of his garbage truck. It sounded like a great opportunity because the pay was .50 ¢ more hourly then he was currently making. Walter decided that it was time to make a career move and start his new life as a garbage man. Walter...

The year was 1968, and Walter Leck was seventeen years old and working as a farm hand on a local farm. One day the owner of a local trash company in Newtown, Pennsylvania approached him. The owner asked Walter if he would be interested in working as a laborer on the back of his garbage truck. It sounded like a great opportunity because the pay was .50 ¢ more hourly then he was currently making. Walter decided that it was time to make a career move and start his new life as a garbage man. Walter continued to work for the local trash company "Don Edwards Disposal" for about three years, when one day his new boss became ill and asked Walter if he thought that he could drive the garbage truck for him. Walter thought to himself, I've been driving farm equipment since I was thirteen years old, why not drive a garbage truck? So Walter decided that he would give driving a garbage truck a try. In 1970, he decided to work for another small family trash company for a brief time until early 1971. While working for the other company, Walter started thinking that maybe all of his hard work should earn him more money. And that’s when he decided to start his own trash company. Since 1971, Leck Waste Services has provided commercial and industrial waste pick up, as well as single-stream recycling service to customers in Bucks County, Montgomery County, Northeast Philadelphia, and Southern Lehigh Counties in Pennsylvania. Located in Newtown, PA until September 2001, Leck is now located in Ivyland, PA, and has 50 employees operating 35 trucks daily.