World Bank

Solid Waste Management

Around the world, waste generation rates are rising. In 2020, the world was estimated to generate 2.24 billion tonnes of solid waste, amounting to a footprint of 0.79 kilograms per person per day.
Nasdaq

Waste Management: Trash Makes Cash, but Don’t Overpay

Waste Management (WM) is the prime provider of all-inclusive waste management environmental services in North America, with a leading position in the United States and Canada. The company signs ...
Business Insider

Waste-management facilities are using AI to turn trash into recycled treasure

Millions of recyclable materials are put into incorrect waste streams every year. The UK startup Greyparrot uses AI to help mitigate environmental harm from improper waste disposal. This article is ...
PE Hub

Cleaning up: 6 private equity deals in waste management

Industrial waste management is a vital part of the waste disposal value chain, “enabling safe and sustainable industrial manufacturing and production,” noted EQT in a statement following its recent ...
Business Wire

Waste Management to Acquire Advanced Disposal for $4.9 Billion Adding Complementary Assets and Customer Base in the Eastern United States

Expected to be Immediately Accretive to Waste Management’s Earnings and Cash Flow More than $100 Million of Projected Annual Cost and Capital Expenditure Synergies Expected to Result in a Post-Synergy ...
Business Wire

Waste Management and Advanced Disposal Announce Revised Terms of Acquisition and Agreement to Sell Substantially All Anticipated Regulatory Divestitures to GFL Environmental

HOUSTON & PONTE VEDRA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) and Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. (NYSE: ADSW) announced today that they have amended the terms of the definitive ...