Waste Connections Inc. Company Profile
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Waste Connections at a glance
Waste Connections Inc. (NYSE: WCN) is a Environmental Services company in the Utilities sector headquartered in Woodbridge, ON, Canada. Waste Connections is led by Mr. Ronald J. Mittelstaedt and employs about 24,214 people. At a market capitalization of $39.60 billion, it is considered a large-cap company.
Its SEC Central Index Key (CIK) is 0001318220, which identifies the company's filings on EDGAR.
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What does Waste Connections do?
Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, and disposal services in the United States and Canada. It offers 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. The company owns and operates transfer stations that receive, compact, and/or load waste to be transported to landfills or treatment facilities through truck, rail, or barge; develops, owns, and operates projects or the beneficial reuse of landfill gas through landfill network; and intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste created through the initial drilling and completion of an oil or natural gas well, 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, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Woodbridge, Canada.
Business description based on the company's public filings.
Company information
- Legal name
- Waste Connections Inc.
- Ticker
- NYSE: WCN
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- CEO
- Mr. Ronald J. Mittelstaedt
- Employees
- 24,214
- Headquarters
- 6220 Highway 7, Woodbridge, ON, Canada
- Phone
- 905 532 7510
- Website
- wasteconnections.com
- Market cap
- $39.60B
- SEC CIK
- 0001318220
- Latest annual report
- 10-K · Feb 12, 2026
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