PEP member Smash My Trash was recently named a 2025 Small Business of the Year finalist.
Smash My Trash is shaking up the waste management industry by introducing an innovative mobile dumpster compaction service that helps businesses cut costs and reduce their environmental footprint.
Founded in Mobile, Smash My Trash partners with local companies to compact waste safely and efficiently, which allows dumpsters to hold more and reduces the frequency of costly hauls. Customers typically save at least 20 percent on waste hauling expenses. Fewer hauls also mean fewer trucks on the road, cleaner air and reduced carbon emissions.
Since opening, the Mobile team has completed more than 20,000 “smashes,” eliminating more than 10,000 hauls. That is the equivalent of removing more than 2 million miles driven by a gasoline-powered vehicle from the road or avoiding the burning of more than 900,000 pounds of coal.
The 2025 Mobile Chamber Small Business of the Year applications are currently being accepted. Each monthly finalist will receive a $500 award and is in the running to be named the Small Business of the Year which comes with a $10,000 prize.