Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries provides environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers globally. 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. Its portfolio also includes owns and operates transfer stations, and owns, develops, and operates landfill gas-to-energy facilities that produce renewable electricity and renewable natural gas.
It also operates materials processing and commodities recycling services Including cardboard, paper, glass, metals, plastics, construction and demolition materials, and recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes. Its portfolio also includes markets and resells recycling commodities, recycling brokerage services, such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties, and strategic business solutions.
Additionally, it collects recyclable food and yard waste, as well as markets and sells mulch, compost, soil amendments, and renewable energy. Its portfolio also includes offers remediation and construction, and industrial waste services, and manages and markets fly ash, as well as Regulated Waste and Compliance Services (RWCS), which offers compliance programs
Collection, processing, and disposal of regulated and specialized waste, including medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste Secure Information Destruction (SID) services that include the collection of personal and confidential information for secure destruction and recycling of sorted office paper. Founded in 1968 and based in Houston, Texas, Waste Management was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. before rebranding in 1998.