Waste Management (NYSE: WM) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Waste Management provides comprehensive waste and environmental services across North America.
Waste Management
Waste Management is an American environmental services company providing comprehensive waste management, recycling, and resource recovery services across North America. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company operates an extensive network of solid waste landfills, transfer stations, recycling facilities, and landfill gas-to-energy power plants. Its primary operations include residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal solid waste collection, disposal, and material recovery. Waste Management serves millions of residential, commercial, and industrial customers across the United States and Canada, managing waste collection routes, recycling processing infrastructure, and environmental solutions designed to minimize landfill waste and promote resource sustainability.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Waste Management
- Commercial Waste Disposal and Collection: Provision of scheduled collection and disposal services for commercial, industrial, and institutional clients using front-load containers, roll-off dumpsters, and dedicated routing networks across North America to transport solid waste to transfer stations and active landfills.
- Residential Trash Collection and Recycling: Curbside pickup services for single-family homes and multi-family residential complexes, providing automated container pickup for municipal solid waste, commingled recyclables, yard waste, and organic materials routed directly to local processing facilities and disposal sites.
- Roll-Off Dumpster and Construction Services: Temporary roll-off dumpster rentals and bulk container delivery for construction, demolition, remodeling, and industrial projects, managing large-volume waste removal, sorting, and disposal at permitted construction and demolition debris landfills.
- Material Recovery and Recycling Processing: Operation of advanced single-stream and multi-stream recycling centers that sort, baling, and process post-consumer paper, cardboard, plastics, glass, and metals into recycled raw materials for manufacturing end-markets throughout global commodity supply chains.
- Landfill Operations and Environmental Remediation: Management of modern, engineered subtitle D solid waste landfills equipped with environmental protection liners, leachate collection networks, subterranean monitoring systems, and specialized handling capabilities for municipal solid waste and non-hazardous industrial process waste.
- Renewable Energy and Landfill Gas Recovery: Extraction and processing of methane gas generated from organic decomposition in solid waste landfills to generate electricity or produce pipeline-quality renewable natural gas for transportation fleets and industrial energy consumers.
Waste Management executive team
- Mr. James C. Fish Jr.CEO & Director
- Mr. John J. Morris Jr.President & COO
- Ms. Tara J. HemmerSenior VP & Chief Sustainability Officer
- Mr. Rafael E. CarrascoSenior Vice President of Enterprise Strategy
- Mr. David L. ReedCFO & Executive VP
- Mr. John A. CarrollVP & Chief Accounting Officer
- Mr. Johnson VarkeySenior VP & Chief Information Officer
- Mr. Edward A. EglDirector of Investor Relations
- Mr. Charles C. Boettcher J.D.Executive VP of Corporate Development & Chief Legal Officer
- Mr. Charles S. SchwagerVP and Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer