- Business
- Waste Management, Inc. provides environmental waste management services. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company serves municipal, commercial, industrial and healthcare customers across North America through collection, disposal, transfer, recycling, and resource-recovery operations; it also offers landfill gas-to-energy and renewable natural gas solutions, materials recovery, special waste handling, and secure information destruction and compliance services through its WM Healthcare Solutions segment. WM’s core business spans collection; landfill and transfer station operations; recycling and commodity brokerage; organics and other waste-processing services; and healthcare, regulated-waste, and secure destruction services, with operations organized to support residential, commercial, industrial, and healthcare end markets. In 2024, the company completed its acquisition of Stericycle, expanding into WM Healthcare Solutions and broadening its regulated waste and compliance services platform. More recently, WM reported higher 2026 revenue and raised its full-year margin outlook, while narrowing revenue guidance amid softer collection and disposal volumes, lower recycling brokerage activity, and delays connecting two renewable natural gas plants to pipelines.