Provides Updates on 2020 Sustainability Goals and Recycling
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2017--
Waste Management (NYSE: WM) today released its 2017
Sustainability Report, which provides updated data to supplement the
company’s full 2016 report, “Leading Change, Reinvigorating the Spirit
of Environmental Stewardship.” The report updates progress on the
company’s 2020 Sustainability Goals, Key Performance Indicators and
recent awards received.
“Waste Management has, for many years, been focused on the importance of
sustainability,” said Jim Fish, president and chief executive officer of
Waste Management. “We maintain that focus and commitment as our
customers, communities and the environment demand it – and future
generations deserve it.”
Waste Management will release its next full report in December 2018. To
view the 2017 update, visit Waste Management’s online Sustainability
Report, sustainability.wm.com.
To view past company Sustainability Reports, visit wm.com/sustainability.
To learn more about the company’s direction and long-term commitment to
sustainability, watch Jim Fish and other speakers on a live stream of
our eighth annual Sustainability Forum. Other speakers include Mike
Rowe, executive producer and show host of Dirty Jobs, and Keller
Rinaudo, Founder and CEO of Zipline, a company that invented life-saving
drones that drop blood bags and medicine into remote areas. For more
information, visit the Waste
Management Sustainability Forum.
ABOUT WASTE MANAGEMENT
Waste Management, based in Houston, Texas, is the leading provider of
comprehensive waste management services in North America. Through its
subsidiaries, the company provides collection, transfer, recycling and
resource recovery, and disposal services. It is also a leading
developer, operator and owner of landfill gas-to-energy facilities in
the United States. The company’s customers include residential,
commercial, industrial, and municipal customers throughout North
America. To learn more information about Waste Management visit www.wm.com
or www.thinkgreen.com.
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Waste Management
Tiffiany Moehring, 720-346-5372
tmoehrin@wm.com
