Waste Management Inc

Waste Management Inc. through its subsidiaries engages in the provision of environmental solutions to residential commercial industrial and municipal customers in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station material recovery facility (MRF) or disposal site; and owns and operates transfer stations as well as owns develops and operates landfill facilities that produce landfill gas used as renewable natural gas for generating electricity. As of December 31 2022 the company owned or operated 254 solid waste landfills five secure hazardous waste landfills 97 MRFs and 337 transfer stations. It also provides materials processing and commodities recycling services at its MRFs where cardboard paper glass metals plastics construction and demolition materials and other recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes; recycling brokerage services such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties; and other strategic business solutions. In addition the company offers construction and remediation services; services related with the disposal of fly ash and residue generated from the combustion of coal and other fuel stocks; in-plant services comprising full-service waste management solutions and consulting services; and specialized disposal services for oil and gas exploration and production operations. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management Inc. in 1998. Waste Management Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston Texas.