Oral history interview with Lonnie Poole, March 22, 1999 [electronic resource] : interview I-0085, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
Lonnie Poole describes the slow evolution of his waste management company from business plan to publicly traded corporation. Poole believed that he could earn a profit as a private waste manager and spent years trying to convince counties in North Carolina to cede control of their solid waste to him. After a decade of lobbying, his efforts began to pay off, and Poole found his organization growing. Poole describes the elements that made meeting his goals difficult, the eventual success of his company, and some of the complicating factors--like environmentalism--that pose continued challenges.
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Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Duration: 01:50:47. Interview participants: Lonnie Poole, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer. Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 26, 2007). |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 154.7 kilobytes, 202.9 megabytes. |
| Original Version Note: | Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series I, Business history, interview I-0085, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 32 p. |
| Funding Information Note: | Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player. |
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