WM is North America's leading provider of integrated environmental solutions. We partner with our customers and communities to manage and reduce waste from collection to disposal while recovering valuable resources and creating clean, renewable energy. We are on a quest for environmental performance, a mission to maximize resource value, while minimizing – and even eliminating – environmental impact so that both our economy and our environment can thrive. WM tailors its services to meet the needs of each customer group and to ensure consistent, superior service at the local level. Headquartered in Houston, the company serves nearly 20 million municipal, commercial, industrial, and residential customers through a network of 367 collection operations, 355 transfer stations, 273 active landfill disposal sites, 16 waste-to-energy plants, 104 recycling plants, and 111 beneficial-use landfill gas projects. read more

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Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at Waste Management

Investing in Tomorrow:
Our key initiatives are focused on reducing environmental impact, facilitating circularity and empowering people to live sustainably.

- To reduce emissions from our trucks, we didn't just switch to renewable fuels; we started producing them by capturing gases our landfills release and converting them to low-carbon fuel that powers a significant portion of our fleet.

- We incorporated advanced data-collection technology into our trucks, making collection safer and more efficient while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

- We also placed our first robot in a recycling facility located in Houston. Robotics at WM Recycling Facilities across North America enhance quality control and worker safety.

- We made recycling more convenient by utilizing single-stream recycling on a mass scale. But recycling markets started to shift, causing more non-recyclable items to show up at our facilities. So we created new domestic markets to help absorb more materials.

- We've collaborated with other sustainability leaders such as Dow and Repreve to find new ways of tackling old challenges stemming from difficult materials.

Community Impact and Philanthropy

We may be a large company with facilities that span the North American continent, but when it comes to delivering our services, we’re still just a local business.

Our customers are also our neighbors, associates, friends and family. The schools we serve are the same schools that teach our own children. The businesses we serve are the same businesses that serve us as customers. The hospitals, police departments, governments and civic organizations we serve are also the same ones that care for and protect the communities we live in, too.

For all these reasons, we have a personal interest in helping make those communities better places to work and live. It’s a responsibility we take to heart.

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