AI Online Tool for Customers Homewood Disposal Service Introduces "Wendy the Waste Truck AI" to Upgrade Customer Interaction Homewood, IL – July 2024 – Homewood Disposal Service is thrilled to announce the launch of our latest innovation in customer service: "Wendy the Waste Truck AI." [...]
Protecting Your Account from Check Washing Switching to Online Billing for Added Banking Security What is Check Washing? Check washing involves criminals stealing paper checks out of the mail. The checks are then erased or "washed" using chemicals, resulting in a "blank [...]
How to Properly Dispose of Cicadas Managing the Insect Invasion in Illinois As Illinois braces itself for the emergence of cicadas in 2024, residents are gearing up for a buzzing flurry of activity. With billions of noisy insects expected to emerge from their underground homes, it's [...]
How is My Commercial Garbage Container Delivered? The garbage container delivery process can be a little confusing for new business customers. Many new customers ask "How will you deliver my new garbage container to my business?". [...]
Local Earth Day Events Focus on Education Chicagoland and NW Indiana Earth Day events in 2023 focus on education and environmental stewardship. What is Earth Day? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Earth Day was first celebrated in the United States in 1970 as a way to [...]
Alternative Fuel Equals Clean Air for Indiana Valparaiso, Indiana Garbage Trucks Run on CNG Fuel Instead of Diesel Fuel On October 12, 2022, Homewood Disposal announced that it began using garbage trucks powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in [...]
What Can I Put in My Dumpster? Construction projects can take a long time and produce many types of waste. Materials like wood, shingles, metals, plastic, drywall, trees, plumbing, rock, and dirt are often no longer needed during new construction or demolition. That’s a lot of material to dispose of. In fact, [...]
Frequently Asked Questions About Dumpsters Chicaogland and Northwest Indiana homeowners and businesses frequently have detailed questions about our dumpster service. Whether you're redoing floors, organizing your garage, or building a warehouse, renting a temporary dumpster can make life a whole lot easier. But renting a dumpster can be intimidating for a first [...]
Basement Flooding Clean Up Basement flooding and cleanup is a common Midwest problem. According to the National Flood Insurance Program, “Floods can happen anywhere – just one inch of floodwater can cause up to $25,000 in damage.” Flooding can be expensive and time consuming to clean up, especially [...]
Check Fraud and Mail Fraud - Protecting Our Customers According to the American Bankers Association, in 2018 successful check fraud made up $1.3 billion of banks’ total fraud losses. How does fraud affect me? Your paper checks could be at risk as they move through the postal system. In fact, [...]
