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The Future of Junk
With Greg Workmon
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About the show

Built for operators.
Not for vendors.

The Future of Junk is a hauler-agnostic podcast covering the news, intelligence, and long view on where the junk removal industry is headed.

Greg Workmon Greg Workmon · Host
The host

Greg Workmon

Greg Workmon has been building in the junk removal industry since 2014, when he founded LoadUp in Atlanta. Over the last decade he has grown it into a nationwide marketplace connecting customers with a 1,200+ independent contractor network across all 50 states.

Outside of operating, he writes about marketplace dynamics, operator economics, and the technology shaping service businesses. The Future of Junk is the conversation he has been having with peers for years — now in public, and on the record.

The show is intentionally hauler-agnostic. No posturing for one brand. No vendor puff pieces. Just the conversations the operators in the trucks actually want.

"The industry is going to look completely different in five years. The operators who see it coming win. The ones who don't get rolled up." — Greg Workmon, Episode 001
What we cover

The beat.

Six recurring lanes that map the industry's center of gravity. Every episode lives in one of them.

01 / PE & M&A

Consolidation watch

Deal flow, multiples, who's rolling up whom, and what acquirers actually look for in a target. Operator-side reporting, not banker spin.

02 / Technology

The operator stack

Booking engines, AI agents, CRM, dispatch, pricing intelligence. What's production-ready, what's still demoware, what's worth building yourself.

03 / Operations

Unit economics

Margin math, dump fees, fuel, CAC, retention. Where margin actually comes from and where most operators leak it.

04 / Growth

Demand & brand

Local SEO, GMB, AEO, paid acquisition, programmatic. What's working in 2026 for service-area businesses — with data.

05 / Labor

The classification frontier

Contractor vs. employee, state-by-state. Operating models that scale, models that blow up, and the contracts that matter.

06 / Adjacencies

Where the category goes next

Valet trash, dumpster rental, moving, donation logistics. When to expand, when to stay focused, and who's playing the long game.