Waste Connections, Inc.

Waste Connections, Inc. is a leading provider of non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, disposal, and resource recovery services in the United States and Canada. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Woodbridge, Canada. It operates a network of over 585 solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling facilities, including 334 collection operations, 142 transfer stations, 61 municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, 12 E&P waste landfills, 14 non-MSW landfills, 71 recycling operations, 4 intermodal operations, 23 E&P liquid waste injection wells, and 19 E&P waste treatment and oil recovery facilities.

Waste Connections offers a variety of services, including collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and exploration and production (E&P) customers; landfill disposal services; and recycling services for various recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. It also provides intermodal services for the rail haul movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest through a network of intermodal facilities. Additionally, the company offers E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste resulting from oil and natural gas exploration and production activity, such as drilling fluids, drill cuttings, completion fluids, and flowback water; production wastes and produced water during a well’s operating life; contaminated soils that require treatment during site reclamation; and substances, which require clean-up after a spill, reserve pit clean-up, or pipeline rupture.

Waste Connections serves over 6 million residential, commercial, industrial, and E&P customers in 40 states and six Canadian provinces. The company has a fleet of over 5,000 collection, transfer, and disposal vehicles, as well as a network of over 1,000 independent haulers. In 2021, Waste Connections generated revenue of over $6 billion and employed over 20,000 people.