SCA was incorporated by Berton Steir as a diversified conglomerate, providing building maintenance, vending, food, travel, and waste disposal service.
The Harvard-educated Steir naïvely acquired New Jersey trash companies, with disguised ownership, which subsequently caused SCA problems.
Months after Hoffa's assassination, prominent members of SCA's New York team were indicted for planning a $300,000 kickback to mobsters and Teamsters.
One of these dumps in Niagara Falls, New York, near the infamous Love Canal site, became a local terror.
Lagoons of industrial waste would emerge during rainstorms, and highway officials reported of numerous explosions and fires.
Continued public protest made SCA prefer incineration of toxic wastes to landfill burial.
These efforts appeared to pay off when President Carter banned hazardous waste burial, but the Reagan administration quickly reversed these policies.
In one of the strangest alliances in the company's history, SCA joined the Environmental Defense Fund to reinstate the ban of hazardous waste dumping.