A new clean-up crew will be taking care of campus at the end of the month.The University and SDT Waste and Debris have reached an agreement for SDT to provide recycling and waste disposal services for the University.The contract between the two sides begins July 1, according to a news release.The University’s original contract was with Waste Management, Inc. Sidney Torres, president and owner of SDT, said his company bid against Waste Management and Pelican Commercial Waste Services, among others, for the contract.”We got a copy of the bid, and we started working on it about two weeks ago,” Torres said.The contract is SDT’s first in the Baton Rouge area. SDT also serves Independence and Hammond, as well as Tangipahoa parish.”We feel like we can help in [Baton Rouge] as far as giving good service at a good price like we have in other markets,” Torres said. “We’re glad to add them to our list of customers. We service the Saints, the Hornets, all the major sporting outlets in the state, and we’re happy to now have LSU.”This isn’t the first university SDT has served. Torres said his company has been cleaning up Loyola University-New Orleans and the University of New Orleans for about two and a half years.”We’re very familiar with large campuses,” Torres said.Torres plans to expand his market in Baton Rouge to offer services in commercial and residential areas along with construction sites. He said he wants to have an office built in Baton Rouge within the next month.Torres is also a real estate developer in New Orleans. He started SDT after Hurricane Katrina, helping the New Orleans area clean up in the aftermath of the storm.”There was a need for it after the storm,” Torres said. “I made a phone call to get some services for one of my hotels that I own in the French Quarter, and the prices that they wanted for service were just unbelievably high. I know how much it costs from dealing with them before.”—-Contact Robert Stewart at [email protected]