Waste Container Systems to integrate Shield Devices’ technology

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Seattle-based Shield Devices Inc. (SD) and Minneapolis-based Waste Container Systems (WCS) have announced a strategic partnership through which WCS will integrate SD’s technology, including SD’s Trash Shield, and collaborate on marketing, manufacturing and logistics. 

WCS provides modular containers to waste haulers. Its spinoff company, SalesStryke, is a software company that offers online automated customer signup to independent waste collection companies.

SD has developed and patented the Trash Shield, a device that clips onto any waste container and automatically eliminates pests, pathogens and odors, the company says. Trash Shield is ideal for haulers’ commercial customers, such as restaurants, hospitals, schools and retail.

“WCS is creating a powerful value matrix with SD that will help our shared waste collection customers offer a convenient solution to their business customers and reduce age-old problems associated with trash,” says Andrew Sorensen, vice president of WCS.

“Our partnership with WCS is a natural extension of our brand,” says Eric Larabee, president of SD. “SD’s team is extremely impressed with the success of WCS’s company and their previous enterprise, GarbageMan, a multimillion-dollar enterprise that was sold to national hauler Waste Management. We value WCS’s expertise in waste management, their understanding of the demands in the marketplace and their groundbreaking modular solution.”

With more than 50 combined years of expertise and development of fast-growth companies, Sorenson and Jon Huber, product specialist and sales manager at WCS, will act as strategic advisors to SD under the partnership.

“We are always looking for powerful and innovative collaborations that continue to put us at the forefront of the fast-growing waste industry,” Sorensen says. “The WCS team looks forward to the expansion of the two companies under the partnership.”

“We see the Trash Shield as a win-win for both waste haulers and their customers,” Huber adds. “Customers pay a nominal fee for convenience to mitigate common problems, and waste haulers increase their bottom line.”