Waste Services Quality of life is certainly influenced by the quality of the environment. To ensure that the urban environment is an agreeable place to live, free of trash and garbage, ONYX provides local communities and private industry with state-of-the-art waste services including: collection, transfer, recycling, advanced technology landfilling, and street cleaning. This division of ONYX uses modern waste handling methods, developed through continuous technological research and operated by highly trained staff. In anticipation of its clients' needs, ONYX can design and produce specific equipment and services specially adapted for every requirement. Let Us Bring A World Of Experience To You Belonging to Vivendi, a $40 billion Paris-based group and a world leader in Urban Environmental services, ONYX-Florida provides its clients with solid, workable, tailor-made waste management strategies. Whatever your needs are . . . from residential solid waste collection, as we currently provide for the City of Miami Beach, to recycling . . . from disposal and energy-recovery activities, which we operate for Miami-Dade County, to facility design and construction. We will work closely with you to implement environmentally sound, integrated waste management solutions. Waste News Reporting on solid waste management, from product design to disposal and recovery. Volume 4, Issue 25 November 2, 1989 French company signs U.S. collection contract. By Bob Brown Miami Beach, FL - French waste giant, Vivendi, snagged its first trash collection contract in the United States - a two-year residential deal with Miami Beach worth about $1 million annually. ONYX Corp., a division of Paris-based Vivendi, began service last month to 6,500 single-family homes and apartment buildings of eight units or less in the city. The company beat out six American waste haulers, including Waste Management Inc., Browning-Ferris Industries Inc., and Republic Services Inc., for the pact. The deal was signed Sept. 10. ONYX offered Miami Beach very favorable terms to land the contract. The city will save about $300,000 annually from what it had been paying BFI, said Ronnie Singer, executive assistant to the city manager. "They wanted to showcase Miami Beach to launch their residential endeavors in other areas," said Singer, who oversaw the waste contract bids for the city. Len Enriquez, vice president of business development for ONYX-Florida, acknowledged the company coveted the pact as a way to break into the collection side. The company had bid unsuccessfully for a residential collection contract that Palm Beach County, FL, awarded this summer. In spite of the cost savings, ONYX nearly lost out again. Concerns about the newcomer's lack of a track record led the city administration to recommend the pact go to WMI, Singer said. But the City Commission overruled the recommendation. Commissioners felt comfortable with the company's proven performance in Europe, Singer said. Given its low bid price and plans to buy new equipment, the commission opted to take a chance on ONYX, she said. ONYX operates six waste-to-energy plants as well as a transfer station in Pennsylvania, Enriquez said. The incinerators are in Miami-Dade County, FL; Montgomery County, PA; Long Island, NY; Dutchess County, NY; Long Beach, CA; and Vancouver, British Columbia. Trash collected in Miami Beach goes to the Miami-Dade County incinerator. The company has no other pending waste collection contracts, but Enriquez said ONYX is pursuing other business. Long-range plans are for the company to establish collection operations on a regional basis around the country, he said. Toll Free: (877) 326-6699 [ Home Page ]  [ Commercial, Residential-Reference ] [ Dade Plant & 6 Other Plants ]  [ Specialty & Industrial Waste/Research ] Copyright © 1999 All Rights Reserved. Intelligent Media Ventures, Inc.