# Waste Connections, Inc.

Summary updated: 2026-03-19T06:37:53.381742Z
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## Overview

Waste Connections, Inc. is a North American environmental services company focused on integrated solid waste management. Its core business includes non-hazardous waste collection, transfer and disposal services, recycling, and resource recovery including renewable fuels generation from landfill gas; it also provides non-hazardous exploration and production waste treatment, recovery and disposal services, as well as intermodal services in the Pacific Northwest. The company operates primarily across the United States and Canada, with a market position centered on secondary and exclusive markets, and it organizes its operations into six geographic segments: Western, Southern, Eastern, Central, Canada and MidSouth. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-d698a25a487b42ab93341463fbf00cab)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-a3035d645a9c497ea155c63f5d438e74)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-2682e2b67b9c4f5bbdec8045fcc7f4cd)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-78de2e791fd84e4683a5dec3d89b09b9)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-c9eec07d4b1246d888a785790da618cd)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-83898dcd2fb84839a4510bccab89d4b1)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-f8fe149fb8464ebc8087f6afedd69900)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-0b0cbd61681f45bf88c62fa5116000ff)

Founded in 1997, Waste Connections describes itself as the third-largest solid waste services company in North America and reports operations in 46 U.S. states and six Canadian provinces. Its operating philosophy emphasizes safety, integrity, customer service and being a strong workplace, while its public-facing mission language stresses customer satisfaction and safety above all. In 2024, the company generated $8.920 billion in revenue and employed 23,854 people. [9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-620d753386a74fed99f267f3f9bff40b)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-2add93cecb41424592b98fc648096e71)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-f832b5731903440e8e68f0bc5a66606b)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-09f83f2d4c9146b7b5c169ae86abc295)[13](https://www.wasteconnections.com/company/about-us)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-4d58dcd6db63435f8a1e6b6d107a3267)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-10474ce75b144457ab73b78c5fae820b)
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## Products & services

Waste Connections’ offerings are primarily service-based rather than branded manufactured products. Its core services include waste collection for residential, commercial, municipal, industrial and E&P customers, typically under governmental certificates, exclusive franchise agreements, municipal contracts, subscriptions or service agreements. It also operates transfer stations that receive, compact and/or load waste for transport to landfills or treatment facilities by truck, rail or barge, extending hauling reach and improving utilization. On the disposal side, the company owned or operated 77 municipal solid waste landfills, 20 E&P waste landfills and caverns, and 16 non-MSW landfills as of December 31, 2024; four of its MSW landfills also accepted E&P waste. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-d698a25a487b42ab93341463fbf00cab)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-a3035d645a9c497ea155c63f5d438e74)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-78de2e791fd84e4683a5dec3d89b09b9)

Its recycling services cover compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. Waste Connections owns and operates recycling facilities and markets collected recyclables to third parties for processing and resale, with paper products making up most of the recyclables it processes for sale. The company also develops landfill-gas recovery and renewable fuels projects: as of year-end 2024 it had gas recovery systems at 59 landfills, with 14 projects using processed gas to fuel electricity generators and 16 projects upgrading gas to pipeline-quality natural gas; recovered gas can also be used to fuel alternative-fueled vehicles, and some projects generate renewable fuel credits. [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-2682e2b67b9c4f5bbdec8045fcc7f4cd)[16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-8665afcef6fd4de2a49acb6752e27436)

In environmental services, Waste Connections provides non-hazardous oil and gas exploration and production waste treatment, recovery and disposal through E&P waste landfills and caverns, MSW landfills that also receive E&P waste, liquid waste injection wells, and treatment and oil recovery facilities. Depending on the site and regulatory regime, it samples and tests flowback water, produced water and other drilling and production wastes; separates solids into land treatment cells; routes liquids through oil recovery systems; injects liquids into saltwater disposal wells or places them in evaporation cells; and in some locations washes solids to meet regulatory criteria. It also offers terminals or access points to move produced clean crude oil to market by pipeline and manages related purchase, sale, blending and enhancing activities. In the Pacific Northwest, it also provides intermodal rail-haul services for cargo and solid waste containers. Based on the company’s 2024 service-line revenue disclosure, collection represented 71.0% of revenue, landfill 17.5%, transfer 15.1%, E&P 5.8%, recycling 2.7%, and intermodal and other 2.2%. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-83898dcd2fb84839a4510bccab89d4b1)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-cdc01660740e436bb68b4b8dd554883f)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-062467747b0e4e94bde9210cd93aeb9e)
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## Geographic presence

Waste Connections operates across North America, with operations in 46 U.S. states and six Canadian provinces; it also provides E&P waste services in several basins across the U.S. and Canada and intermodal services in the Pacific Northwest. Its principal executive offices are in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. [10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-2add93cecb41424592b98fc648096e71)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-322d16f8f47845ad9f5b4f63fe647d2b)

The company organizes its solid waste business into six geographic operating segments: Western, Southern, Eastern, Central, Canada, and MidSouth. For 2024, consolidated reported revenue was $8.92 billion after intercompany eliminations, with the Western segment contributing 20.2%, Southern 19.7%, Eastern 17.5%, Central 17.0%, Canada 14.1%, and MidSouth 11.5%; taken together, the five U.S.-based segments accounted for 85.9% of reported revenue and the Canada segment 14.1%. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-bcf5ef56c64b49e580dd31a5d04237ab)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-a44e51180b0a439cbe4f21f63f740a90)

As of December 31, 2024, Waste Connections had 23,854 active employees, including 20,187 in the United States and 3,667 in Canada. Its net property and equipment was similarly concentrated in the U.S., at $6.87 billion versus $1.17 billion in Canada at year-end 2024. [15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-10474ce75b144457ab73b78c5fae820b)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-c4be2277a55e4fc888022ebede71e1ca)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-967920e42e4e498492d8b978533ba651)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-835a238e73724d23a0ce7bc6c7d124fd)
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## Business segments

Waste Connections’ officially reported segments are six geographic solid waste operating segments: Southern, Western, Eastern, Central, Canada and MidSouth. The company states that these six operating segments are also its reportable segments, with each segment responsible for several vertically integrated operations made up of districts; “Corporate” is shown separately for unallocated items rather than as a reportable segment. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-313f574c1247448f87b1f33efc24e26b)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-795b81a855854bf59e6588b6eb5c6834)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-a1f29f721c344d3da932881cb87ebc0a)

On the latest reported basis shown in the segment note, revenue after intercompany eliminations was split approximately as follows: Southern 20.2%, Western 19.5%, Eastern 18.0%, Central 16.8%, Canada 14.0% and MidSouth 11.5%. This indicates a relatively balanced regional mix, with no single reportable segment contributing more than about one-fifth of reported revenue. [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-76fe60fde5dd4b0a8fbef6d445955343)

Waste Connections also provides a secondary, non-reportable segmentation through revenue disaggregation by service line rather than by operating segment. In that view, 2025 reported revenue was composed of commercial 31.1%, residential 25.0%, landfill 16.3%, transfer 15.4%, industrial and construction roll off 15.2%, E&P 7.3%, recycling 2.5% and intermodal and other 1.9%, with intercompany eliminations presented separately. [29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-eac94b84382e4314a297b619d2c62f27)[30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-79a48346066e4ddba79b4cc3a8807d76)
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## Company history

Waste Connections was formed in 1997, with Ronald J. Mittelstaedt identified by the company as its founder; he served as chief executive from formation and became chairman in January 1998. [31](https://investors.wasteconnections.com/governance/management/default.aspx) In the 2000s, the company expanded through acquisitions, including an integrated operation purchased from Waste Management in 2007 and certain divested assets acquired from Republic Services in 2009. [32](https://investors.wasteconnections.com/2007-01-03-Waste-Connections-Completes-Acquisition-of-Integrated-Operation-From-Waste-Management) [33](https://investors.wasteconnections.com/2009-04-02-Waste-Connections-Completes-Acquisition-of-Certain-Divested-Assets-From-Republic-Services)

A defining milestone came in 2016, when Waste Connections agreed to combine with Progressive Waste Solutions and completed the transaction on June 1, 2016, creating the enlarged company that continued under the Waste Connections name. [34](https://investors.wasteconnections.com/2016-01-19-Waste-Connections-And-Progressive-Waste-Solutions-Agree-To-Combine-To-Create-Leading-Solid-Waste-Services-Company-Focused-On-Differentiated-Markets) [35](https://investors.wasteconnections.com/2016-06-01-Waste-Connections-Inc-And-Progressive-Waste-Solutions-Ltd-Announce-Successful-Completion-Of-Combination) In 2019, the company made a major leadership transition when Worthing Jackman was named president and chief executive officer and Mittelstaedt moved to the role of executive chairman. [36](https://investors.wasteconnections.com/2019-07-26-Waste-Connections-Names-Worthing-Jackman-As-President-And-CEO-Ron-Mittelstaedt-Transitions-To-Executive-Chairman)
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