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2. WM (Waste Management) (company) - Wikipedia

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   Waste Management, Inc., [4] [5] 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 337 transfer stations, 254 active landfill disposal sites ...

3. New York City waste management system - Wikipedia

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   New York City waste management system. New York City's waste management system is a refuse removal system primarily run by the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY). The department maintains the waste collection infrastructure and hires public and private contractors who remove the city's waste. For the city's population of more than ...

4. Waste management - Wikipedia

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   Waste management deals with all types of waste, including industrial, biological, household, municipal, organic, biomedical, radioactive wastes. In some cases, waste can pose a threat to human health. [2] Health issues are associated with the entire process of waste management.

5. Waste Connections - Wikipedia

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   Waste Connections, Inc. is a North American integrated waste services company that provides waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services, primarily of solid waste. It has operations in both the United States and Canada. Its headquarters is located in The Woodlands, Texas. It is the third largest waste management company in North ...

6. History of waste management - Wikipedia

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   The first occurrence of organised solid waste management system appeared in London in the late 18th century. [13] A waste collection and resource recovery system was established around the 'dust-yards'. Main constituent of municipal waste was the coal ash (‘dust’) which had a market value for brick-making and as a soil improver.

7. SITA (waste management company) - Wikipedia

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   SITA is a significant part of the Suez business, which now as a waste management and water treatment specialist is fully focused on sustainable development. It owns, operates or has submitted planning applications for a number of incineration and In-vessel composting [2] [3] plants.

8. Casella Waste Systems - Wikipedia

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   4,000. Casella Waste Systems, Inc. is a waste management company based in Rutland, Vermont, United States. Founded in 1975 with a single truck, Casella is a regional, vertically integrated solid waste services company. Casella provides resource management expertise and services to residential, commercial, municipal and industrial customers ...

9. Waste management industry - Wikipedia

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   Waste management industry, or waste industry for short, subsumes all industrial branches concerned with waste management, waste dumping, waste recycling and - to a lesser degree - waste prevention . Within Germany, waste management has evolved into a large economic sector. There are more than 270,000 people working in some 11,000 companies with ...