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From Gimlet I'm Josh Muccio. You're listening to the pitch, a show where real

entrepreneurs pitch to real investors for real money.

This week?

I wanted to do like Uber for Waste Management.

Ooh, smelly?

Yeah, I'm very smelly.

So we're going to be paying well above union rates.

Okay, when you're investing your own money do the right thing.

When you're investing my money, pay the minimum you can pay. Today we meet a founder who's on a mission to clean up the planet

by changing how we're

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