Waste Management News

BFC Ltd has agreed to acquire Waste Services Inc in an all-stock deal worth $370 million that will create North America's third-largest solid-waste management company.

McGraw-Hill Construction, based in New York City, has released a new report titled 'Sustainable Construction Waste Management: Creating Value in the Built Environment,' which it says reveals that 61 percent of contractors rate waste management plans as the second most important aspect of green building, only behind energy efficiency.

A new program gives hotels an option for recycling their aging television sets and computer monitors.

The leading provider of flat-panel HDTVs to the lodging industry, LG Electronics USA, Inc., and the nation's leading recycler, Waste Management, Inc.

Tom Church has done a solid job in his first term as Summit Township supervisor, bringing the common-sense experience of running his own business, Church Electric Inc., to his government post.

Most Lower Mount Bethel Township residents would see garbage collection bills rise approximately 12 percent under a plan presented by township supervisors Monday night.

A company that manages landfills has a new source of fuel for its garbage trucks - rotting trash.

Last week, with three of seven members absent, Columbia City Council voted 3-1 to extend the city's landfill contract with the Houston-based company Waste Management.

A Waste Management Inc. landfill gas capture project at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, Calif., has finally come into production, and now is powering 300 of Waste Management's nearly 500 natural gas-powered waste and recycling collection trucks.

California is now home to the world's largest plant converting landfill gas into usable natural gas.

Mist forms from the hoses as a tanker truck is filled with liquefied natural gas following the opening celebration for the world's largest landfill gas to LNG facility at the Altamont Landfill in Livermore, Calif., on Monday, Nov.

A joint venture between Waste Management, Inc., North Americaa TMs largest waste services company, and Linde North America, part of The Linde Group, has begun producing clean, renewable vehicle fuel at its facility located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California.

North Carolina officials know some of the mountains of trash that are dumped daily could be useful to someone, if only interested parties could find each other.

Agile project management methods are becoming common as a way to deal with rapid change and high uncertainty.

Waste Management, Inc. October 29, 2009 10:00 am ET Executives David Steiner a ' CEO Lawrence Oa TMDonnell a ' President and COO Bob Simpson a ' SVP and CFO Analysts Jonathan Ellis a ' Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Presentation Operator Good morning.

Currently, each household has its own waste hauler. "We're in the very early stages," Village President Bob Rodney said.

Students from Redmond High School and Issaquah Middle School joined researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Trash Track, an international project tracking waste through the disposal system.

Del. Harvey Morgan, left, and Rep. Rob Wittman, were among guests who took a short ride on one of the new buses.

A subsidiary of Waste Management Inc., the nation's No. 1 trash hauler, said Tuesday it has acquired a medical waste business.

A subsidiary of Waste Management Inc., the nation's No. 1 trash hauler, said Tuesday it has acquired a medical waste business.