Waste Management - GI Industries - Keeping Our Communities Clean

Waste Management, combined with its wholly owned subsidiary Recycle America (WMRA), is North America’s largest recycler, recycling enough paper last year to save more than 41 million trees.

By recycling more than 57,000 tons of steel cans, WM reduces greenhouse gasses equivalent to taking more than 21,000 cars off the road each year.

Waste Management’s landfills provide more than 17,000 acres of protected habitat for wildlife, and 15 are certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council.

By processing 21 million pounds of e-scrap, WM keeps 313,000 monitors/TVs and 175,000 CPU hard drives from being disposed in landfills.

Arroyo Clean-up Benefits from WM Grant

Waste Management recently presented a check to the City of Simi Valley for $5,000 as part of our national 2007 Keep America Beautiful Network grants. WM is a nationwide sponsor of Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and is working to provide these grants through KAB to help tackle key community improvement issues across America. The Simi Valley grant money will be used for community beautification efforts throughout the City. One of the recent beneficiaries of the money was the Neighborhood Council’s fifth annual clean up of the Arroyo on April 28 at the Arroyo on Madera Road, south of Easy Street.

This event is an annual one for the employees of the Simi Valley Landfill and Recycling Center. We’ve been involved with the clean-up since it began in 2002 and have provided free collection and disposal services each year. This year, we again donated food for lunch and helped to cook and serve it to all volunteers.

We collected 3.02 tons of trash, 500 pounds of metal, four TVs and 12 tires at this year's clean-up. Some of the unusual items collected over the years have included a hospital bed, motorcycle and shopping carts. Two hundred and fifty-six volunteers came out to help with the clean-up.

Many people don’t realize that when they dump trash onto the street, it often drains down to the Arroyo and then eventually to the ocean. Our monetary contribution and volunteer efforts are meant to prevent that from happening.

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