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.

Wal-Mart and Waste Management Team Up for Recycling Event

Fluorescent light bulbs are a great – and longer-lasting – source of light, but they contain mercury, a hazardous material which cannot be placed in the trash in California. To help local residents safely dispose of these light bulbs, Wal-Mart and Waste Management teamed up for a special collection event at the end of June.

The event was conducted in partnership with Waste Management’s LampTracker, Inc. and offered consumers a free and convenient opportunity to drop-off and recycle their used compact fluorescent light bulbs (also referred to as CFLs) and fluorescent tubes. Wal-Mart stores, Supercenters and Sam’s Clubs across California, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Rhode Island participated in the event.

To protect your health and the environment, California law requires all residents to take CFLs along with batteries, computers, cell phones, thermostats, and other items known as Universal Waste to designated disposal sites.

The California Integrated Waste Management Board estimates that almost 75 million waste fluorescent lamps and tubes are generated annually in California. CFLs use about one-fourth the energy of conventional light bulbs and can last 10 times longer. Replacing a conventional light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb helps save money in electricity costs and also helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

WM is the largest recycler in North America and we’re proud to help consumers recycle CFLs safely. For local residents, there are also monthly collections of household hazardous waste items. The dates vary depending on which city you live in and you must sign up in advance to be a part of the collection. For more information, please visit http://earth911.org/.

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