Action Waste Services is a family owned and operated company founded by Daniel Lawson Sr. and Daniel Lawson II. Daniel Sr. started out in garbage business as a teenager working as a helper on a truck as an after school job. 

In the late 70's Daniel Sr. moved to Florida to join his brothers who were operating their own garbage company in Miami. Since then Mr. Lawson has owned and operated multiple waste services companies in Miami-Dade county. 

Growing up young Daniel  Lawson II was fascinated by everything having to do with the waste management business. After his first ride in a garbage truck as a little boy he decided that this was the business for him. Daniel Lawson II later went on to attend UCF and graduate with a bachelor's degree in Business Management & Administration. 

​It was a few years after Daniel's graduating from college that father and son began to sit together and form ideas of what the future could hold. It was then that Daniel Lawson Sr. and Daniel Lawson II decided to form Action Waste Services.  The name was chosen because Mr. Lawson felt there were so many excuses given to customers by other garbage companies, that he wanted to be different by offering something different; Action. Belief in the motto of "Action, Not Excuses" is what has been the driving force behind the success of father and son. 

Since those very first days working on the truck as a teenager to now,  Mr. Lawson has used his knowledge of the garbage business, strong work ethic and drive to build what is today Action Waste Services.