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Did You Know?
Waste Management’s landfills provide more than 16,000 acres of protected land for wildlife, and 15 are certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council.
WM operates one of the largest fleets of low emission heavy-duty natural gas trucks in the country and has the largest fleet of 100 percent natural gas trucks in the solid waste industry. Southern California is home to the heaviest concentration of natural gas trucks within all of WM’s operations in North America.
Waste Management, combined with its wholly owned subsidiary Recycle America (WMRA), is North America’s largest recycler handling 5.8 million tons of commodities each year, saving more than 41 million trees and enough energy to power 848,000 households.
- By recycling more than 30,000 tons of aluminum, we save energy enough energy to run a TV for almost 6 billion hours. Recycling one aluminum can run a TV for 3 hours.
- By recycling more than 57,000 tons of steel cans, we reduce greenhouse gasses equivalent to taking more than 21,000 cars off the road each year.
- By recycling more than 229,000 tons of plastics, we save enough energy to power almost 116,000 houses for one year.
- By recycling more than 2.5 million tons of newspaper, we save 41 million trees.
- By recycling nearly 1.7 million tons of cardboard, we recycle more than 6.8 billion boxes each year.
- By recycling more than 1 million tons of glass, we keep 500 million pounds of mining waste from being generated. The energy savings from recycling one bottle will power a computer for 25 minutes.
By processing 21 million pounds of e-scrap, we keep 313,000 monitors/TVs and 175,000 CPU hard drives from being disposed in landfills.
Our almost 100 renewable energy projects produce enough electricity to power more than 800,000 homes and save the equivalent of 8.2 million barrels of oil per year.
- We currently supply enough landfill gas to create more than 250 megawatts of green energy – enough to power 225,000 homes, replacing over 2 million barrels of oil per year.
- Wheelabrator Technologies converts municipal solid waste to energy by burning, saving more than 6 million barrels of oil and generating enough clean, renewable energy to power 600,000 homes each year.
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