Waste Management - GI Industries - Keeping Our Communities Clean

Clean diesel technology will eliminate air pollution from 90 percent - or about 13 million – of today's trucks and buses.

The Simi Landfill & Recycling Center powers 2,500 homes each day with two landfill gas-to-energy generators using methane gas.

Clean diesel engines and fuels will prevent nearly 8,300 premature deaths, along with tens of thousands of cases of bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory ailments.

Throughout the U.S., particulate matter will be reduced by 250,000 tons, and NOx by 4 million tons every year.

In California alone, particulate matter will be reduced by 110,000 tons, and NOx by 2.6 million tons every year.

Dear Friends,

As the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America, Waste Management is committed to being a good steward of the environment and to making communities safer, cleaner and better places to live and work. We provide a variety of resources to our local partners, such as product and financial support, and volunteers. Our employees are dedicated to helping keep our communities clean, green, and vibrant. It's what we do.

While our operations provide vital services to homes, schools, businesses and government facilities, it is important that we maintain a strong local commitment to every neighborhood we serve. Not only do our employees live, work and raise their families in the community, but we are privileged to work in a business that improves the health and safety of individuals and communities in a very direct way. Making communities cleaner, safer and stronger is a central focus for us. READ MORE >

In the Community

This past summer, Waste Management honored our commitment to our local communities by helping out a couple of very worthy Simi Valley residents who found themselves faced with some difficult burdens. Eighty-year-old Chris Palomaraz, a lifetime area resident lost his uninsured house to a fire started by illegal fireworks. Deputy Sheriff David Bonebright and his family have struggled to take care of their medically fragile infant and needed some community support. Waste Management joined with other community groups and community members, to pitch in to help. READ MORE >

Owls Coming to
Simi Landfill

Rodents happen to the best of us. Many years ago, Simi Valley Landfill and Recycling Center pioneered a program to control seagulls at the landfill by using trained falcons to scare them away. Now, the landfill is starting another bird program. With the assistance of a local Boy Scout, the landfill has built owl boxes along the perimeter of the site in order to attract owls. The owls, which naturally prey on various rodents, will help us keep the rodent population at the landfill to a minimum. READ MORE >

Reaching Gold

Like any other customer-oriented business, WM G.I Industries’ primary goal is to provide service to all of our customers in a timely and comprehensive manner. With this in mind, the company issues a challenge to each of its local operating districts: to meet or beat the metrics or standards that research has shown drives customer satisfaction in our business. READ MORE >

Meet Our Team
of Burros

One way we ensure we are fulfilling the needs and expectations of our customers is by tailoring service offerings to regions with special service requirements. Some places where this is evident is in parts of Malibu and the County canyon areas, where WM drivers utilize special smaller trucks, nicknamed burros, or donkeys, because they can easily climb hills and navigate narrow roads. READ MORE >

Trash Disposal Goes High-tech

Many people still mistakenly believe that garbage haulers take trash to the local landfill, throw it into a big hole and leave it there. Maybe it used to be like that, before the age of environmental awareness. But times have changed. Today, landfills have become much more high-tech. READ MORE >

WM Rallies Support for Greenhouse-Gas Reduction

WM is a strong advocate for greenhouse gas reduction. Last month, Kent Stoddard, our VP for Public Affairs, had a chance to give voice to our position and rally support for AB32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, in an Op-Ed piece for the San Francisco Chronicle. READ MORE >