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Think Green, Think Clean!

The Waste Management fleet of trucks each are assigned to pick up specific types of waste: non-recyclable materials, recyclable materials, and green waste. They service 48 states within the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

 

"Waste Management, Inc., doing business as WM, [ is a waste management, comprehensive waste, and environmental services company operating in North America. Founded in 1968, the company is headquartered in the Bank of America Tower in Houston, Texas."

 

"The company's network includes 346 transfer stations, 293 active landfill disposal sites, 146 recycling plants, 111 beneficial-use landfill gas projects and six independent power production plants. Waste Management offers environmental services to nearly 21 million residential, industrial, municipal and commercial customers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. With 26,000 collection and transfer vehicles, the company has the largest trucking fleet in the waste industry. Together with its competitor Republic Services, Inc, the two handle more than half of all garbage collection in the United States."

 

"As of 2017, Waste Management, Inc. employed more than 42,300 people."

 

"In February 2022, Waste Management announced the company would be rebranding to be referred to simply as WM. This comes with an increased emphasis of WM's strategy to focus on sustainability and environmental services and not just waste collection and disposal." (Wikipedia)

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Management_(company)#History

 

www.wm.com/us/en/inside-wm/environmental-stewardship

 

 

 

 

 

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Uploaded on November 17, 2022
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