Creating new jobs while protecting environment
Bouldin and Lawson unveiled its new spin-off company earlier this week bringing promising news on more than one level.
For starters, the new company called WastAway could provide an eventual relief for what’s becoming an overwhelming problem in some parts of the country – garbage.
We all create household garbage and all require a place to dispose of it. Unfortunately, we’re running out of places to dump it, especially in heavily populated areas.
Enter WastAway, a company born right here in Warren County. Using a process that’s described by company owner Floyd Bouldin as being similar to that of a pressure cooker, WastAway turns ordinary trash into a sawdust-like substance. That substance can then be turned into material similar to wood or plastic.
The process is nothing less than a revolutionary breakthrough for the recycling industry. Once the process is refined, and made more affordable, it’s a real possibility our building materials could come from WastAway.
Even if you’re not an environmentalist and care nothing about recycling, Warren County residents should appreciate WastAway for another simple fact: Over the coming years, the company is expected to create hundreds of new local jobs.
Jobs, simple jobs, have once again become the focus in Tennessee and across the country. After over a decade of record economic growth, we are once again singing a familiar refrain.
Bouldin and others within his organization have truly invested in the future of the local economy. Warren County is thirsting for new job openings and WastAway gives us just that chance.
In addition to creating jobs, WastAway gives us a legitimate chance of keeping them. Unlike other local manufacturing companies, which don’t always rely on highly skilled labor, WastAway requires a certain degree of technological know-how. That means there’s a greater chance of keeping those jobs, and related jobs, here in Tennessee and north of the border.
That’s of vital importance in this age when so many of America’s jobs are finding their way to Mexico and beyond.
It’s also of interest that a potentially global concept may have been developed right here in our own backyard. The national implications are easy to see since a significant portion of the research was funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
There’s no telling what the future holds in store for WastAway and the world-wide implications which could come from local research. But one thing appears promising and that’s the fact more jobs look like they’re headed for Warren County.