Think Green®

In January, business executives and thought leaders alike exchanged ideas, best practices and strategies on sustainability during the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

In our third year as title sponsor, Waste Management has been busy transforming the Phoenix Open from the "Greatest Show on Grass" to the "Greenest Show on Grass".

Like so many others, the City of Brotherly Love was looking to become more environmentally friendly while also trying to cut costs. Philadelphia discovered that Waste Management had a bright idea that could help them do both.

Since 2005, Waste Management's relationship with Eastman Kodak Company has gone from that of a waste service provider to a valued environmental partner.

Alcoa understood the value of recovering excess aluminum oxide, a key component in aluminum production, at their Massena, New York, industrial plant. Here was a perfectly reusable and valuable raw material that was being swept up off the factory floor and thrown away.

BASF's sustainability platform contains three key strategic objectives - to achieve environmental protection, social responsibility and economic success. Waste Management is partnering with BASF to deliver three times over for their Freeport, TX, manufacturing plant.

Not long ago, General Motors identified a need to improve the way their pressed cardboard packing containers were managed. Waste Management was asked to help.

It all started with an empty plastic water bottle. Which so often ends up being thrown away. Which inspired one person to think of a way to give empty bottles immortality.

Nature has always relied on the limitless power of the sun to keep our planet green and beautiful. That same thinking goes into the new Waste Management solar-powered trash compactor.

Between the explosive growth of personal electronics and the recent switch to digital broadcasting, the need for convenient, accessible eCycling programs is greater than ever. And Waste Management is rising to the challenge.

What has 12 Dartmouth students, a full tank of vegetable oil and a 13,000-mile mission to promote the greatness of sustainability?

With help from Waste Management, Denver moved to single-stream recycling.

Dell Global Headquarters goes carbon neutral with help from Waste Management.

While many paper companies can print on recycled materials, few can say their material source is also their power source.

On-site recycling education and real-time reporting from Waste Management's Diversion and Recycling Tracking tool (Dart^sm), helped hardison/downey construction, inc. reach a 90% recycling rate.

Most people know that both paper and plastic can be recycled. But what about those "in-between" items?

Through a partnership with Audubon Arkansas, Waste Management's Two Pine Landfill is becoming a natural habitat and a renewable energy producer.

Waste Management helps power BMW's manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Waste Management will supply enough landfill gas to enable UNH to receive 80% to 85% of their energy from this renewable source.

Wheelabrator Technologies was presented with the 2007 Regional Administrator Award.

In 1994, our Wheelabrator Technologies created The Environmental Symposium, an annual educational program.