Avalon Holding Corporation is a holding company that owns subsidiaries that historically performed the transportation operations, technical environmental services operations, waste disposal brokerage and management operations and golf course and related operations of American Waste Services Inc. (AWS). These operations, together with certain assets, were distributed by AWS to Avalon on May 7, 1998, pursuant to the terms of a spin-off agreement. The Company's business is divided into four segments: transportation services, technical environmental services, waste disposal brokerage and management services and golf and related operations. The transportation services, technical environmental services and waste disposal brokerage and management services are provided to industrial, commercial, municipal and governmental customers primarily in selected northeastern and midwestern United States markets.