Blog #2: Kimble Companies

                    Kimble Companies

 Ever wonder where your trash goes once it leaves your house, well I’m here to tell you where it goes locally. My great-grandparents Doris and Floyd Kimble started collecting trash in 1948. In 1948, the local dump was actually located where the Dover football Stadium sits today. Today, the Kimble Company has four generations working there within the company. We are rapidly expanding and looking forward to many more generations to be involved. In 2017, Kimble’s was voted number one trash services by the Times Reporter. Back is 1948 my grandparents would have never dreamed the company would be where it is today.

How did they choose to become a landfill?

Well 1948 my great-grandparents were in the business of mining coal. While doing their jobs many of the workers decided to bring their trash from home to throw into the land once they were done mining. Floyd decided to seal the trash that was dump with clay from our 18,000 acres of area Ohio to protect the water and the other land. Back then there was no regulations from the EPA for waste disposal like there is today. In the mid 1990’s Floyd bought out a waste company in Uhrichsville, Ohio that operated with two disposal trucks called J&J Refuse. Than all of the waste services started from there.

Where we are today?

In 2016, as the businesses of the Kimble family continued to grow the board, which my great-grandmother still sits on today as well as my grandpa and his siblings decided to make the companies all named Kimble Companies. This is because we have a long list of companies we own Red Hill Development, Kimble Trash & recycling, our farm in Atrium and Kimble mining just to name a few could all be one. Kimble trash and Recycling services residential and commercial from Marietta to Lake Erie to east Ohio line to New Concord. 

Why is Kimble Companies Important to Tuscarawas County?

The biggest thing Kimble does for our community is to provide jobs that last. As said by my father Chris Kimble, “Floyd’s dream was to provide jobs for people here in Tuscarawas County”. Currently, Kimble’s employee over 700 employees. They support many local organizations such as Kent State University, Union Hospital, many local high schools, 4H and Phil harmonic.  Kimble’s provides place for locals to dump trash or recycling.