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.

Simi Valley Landfill Hosts Local Tours

We have an open door policy at Waste Management/G.I. Industries and we recently invited members of the Simi Valley Neighborhood Councils to tour the Simi Valley Landfill and Recycling Center. Our guests got a first-hand look at our facility in action and the planned expansion site.

In addition, we extended a formal invitation to the public to join the four tours set aside for the Councils. The idea for the tours with the Neighborhood Councils came about after Mayor Paul Miller requested that Waste Management coordinate with the Councils and keep members informed about WM’s expansion project.

Since it’s important to us that our neighbors understand our operations and our future plans, we are pleased that so many individuals took us up on the tour offer. Participants got to see our green power facility which produces enough energy for 2,500 homes every year as well as power for the landfill. At another stop on the tour we visited the landfill falconer. We use a trained falcon to act as a natural deterrent to keep bird pests away from the landfill. We explained the geography and details of our planned expansion area, and showed visitors the expansion area, which sits inside the hillside ridges and has minimal visual impact.

The tours are only one aspect of Waste Management’s outreach to local residents. Officials from WM will continue to provide updates to the Councils and to the community regarding the status of the project approval process. More information about the project can be found on our website.

If you couldn’t make it to the recent tours, please contact Scott Tignac, the district manager of the Simi Valley Landfill and Recycling Center, at 805-579-7478 to set up a time for an individual tour.

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