Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and internationally. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, recovery facility, or disposal site. The company owns and operates transfer stations and landfill gas-to-energy facilities that produce renewable electricity and renewable natural gas.
Additionally, Waste Management operates materials processing and commodities recycling services, including the recovery of cardboard, paper, glass, metals, plastics, construction and demolition materials, and other recycling commodities for resale or redirection for other purposes. It also provides recycling brokerage services, managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties, and other strategic business solutions.
In addition, the company collects recyclable food and yard waste, as well as markets and sells mulch, compost, soil amendments, and renewable energy. It offers remediation and construction services, industrial waste services, and manages and markets fly ash.
Further, Waste Management provides Regulated Waste and Compliance Services (RWCS), which includes compliance programs, as well as the collection, processing, and disposal of regulated and specialized waste, including medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste. The company also offers Secure Information Destruction (SID) services, which include the collection of personal and confidential information for secure destruction and recycling of sorted office paper.
The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Waste Management, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston, Texas.
