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Waste Management, Inc.
Waste Management, Inc. (WM), incorporated in 1987 as USA Waste Services, leads its industry as the largest waste company in North America, with almost 50,000 employees and revenues of over $11 billion in 2009. It provides comprehensive garbage and environmental services ...
- Archaeology of Garbage
- Consumption and Waste, Industrial/Commercial
- Acid Rain
- Aluminum
- Celluloid
- Coal Ash
- Computers and Printers, Business Waste
- Construction and Demolition Waste
- Copper
- Emissions
- Farms
- Fusion
- Garbage Project
- Hanford Nuclear Reservation
- High-Level Waste Disposal
- Hospitals
- Incinerator Waste
- Incinerators
- Incinerators in Japan
- Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Waste
- Iron
- Malls
- Medical Waste
- Midnight Dumping
- Mineral Waste
- Mining Law
- Noise
- Noise Control Act of 1972
- Nuclear Reactors
- Ocean Disposal
- Pesticides
- Power Plants
- Producer Responsibility
- Radioactive Waste Disposal
- Restaurants
- Rubber
- Sanitation Engineering
- Scrubbers
- Solid Waste Data Analysis
- Stadiums
- Sugar Shortage, 1975
- Supermarkets
- Sustainable Waste Management
- Thallium
- Uranium
- Waste Disposal Authority
- Consumption and Waste, Personal
- Adhesives
- Aerosol Spray
- Air Filters
- Alcohol Consumption Surveys
- Audio Equipment
- Automobiles
- Baby Products
- Beverages
- Books
- Candy
- Car Washing
- Carbon Dioxide
- Certified Products (Fair Trade or Organic)
- Children
- Cleaning Products
- Composting
- Computers and Printers, Business Waste
- Computers and Printers, Personal Waste
- Consumption Patterns
- Cosmetics
- Dairy Products
- Disposable Diapers
- Disposable Plates and Plastic Implements
- Dumpster Diving
- Engine Oil
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- Fast Food Packaging
- Fish
- Floor and Wall Coverings
- Food Consumption
- Food Waste Behavior
- Fuel
- Funerals/Corpses
- Furniture
- Garden Tools and Appliances
- Gasoline
- Gluttony
- Hoarding and Hoarders
- Home Appliances
- Home Shopping
- Household Consumption Patterns
- Household Hazardous Waste
- Human Waste
- Junk Mail
- Lighting
- Linen and Bedding
- Magazines and Newspapers
- Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Garbage
- Meat
- Microorganisms
- Mobile Phones
- NIMBY (Not in My Backyard)
- Open Burning
- Packaging and Product Containers
- Paint
- Paper Products
- Personal Products
- Pets
- Post-Consumer Waste
- Pre-Consumer Waste
- Recyclable Products
- Recycling Behaviors
- Residential Urban Refuse
- Seasonal Products
- Septic System
- Sewage
- Shopping
- Shopping Bags
- Slow Food
- Sports
- Street Scavenging and Trash Picking
- Styrofoam
- Swimming Pools and Spas
- Television and DVD Equipment
- Tires
- Tools
- Toys
- Wood
- Yardwaste
- Geography, Culture, and Waste
- Africa, North
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Argentina
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Central America
- Chile
- China
- Developing Countries
- European Union
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Netherlands
- Pacific Garbage Patch
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Scandinavia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South America
- South Korea
- Space Debris
- Spain and Portugal
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Global Cities: Consumption, Waste Collection, and Disposal
- History of Consumption and Waste
- Atomic Energy Commission
- Bubonic Plague
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Cloaca Maxima
- Earth Day
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- Fresh Kills Landfill
- Germ Theory of Disease
- Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
- History of Consumption and Waste, Ancient World
- History of Consumption and Waste, Medieval World
- History of Consumption and Waste, Renaissance
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., 1800–1850
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., 1850–1900
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., 1900–1950
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., 1950–Present
- History of Consumption and Waste, U.S., Colonial Period
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1500s
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1600s
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1700s
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1800s
- History of Consumption and Waste, World, 1900s
- Industrial Revolution
- Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act
- Miasma Theory of Disease
- National Clean Up and Paint Up Bureau
- National Survey of Community Solid Waste Practices
- Price-Anderson Act
- Public Health Service, U.S.
- Recycling in History
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Resource Recovery Act
- Rittenhouse Mill
- Rivers and Harbors Act
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- September 11 Attacks (Aftermath)
- Société BIC
- Solid Waste Disposal Act
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Trash as History/Memory
- Waste Reclamation Service
- Issues and Solutions
- Anaerobic Digestion
- Biodegradable
- Browning-Ferris Industries
- Capitalism
- Commodification
- Consumerism
- Definition of Waste
- Downcycling
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmentalism
- Garbage in Modern Thought
- Goodwill Industries
- Incinerator Construction Trends
- Organic Waste
- Overconsumption
- Politics of Waste
- Pollution, Air
- Pollution, Land
- Pollution, Water
- Recycling
- Rendering
- Salvation Army
- Sierra Club
- Social Sensibility
- Street Sweeping
- Sustainable Development
- Toxic Wastes
- Transition Movement
- Trash to Cash
- Typology of Waste
- Underconsumption
- Waste Management, Inc.
- Waste Treatment Plants
- Water Treatment
- WMX Technologies
- Zero Waste
- People
- Sociology of Waste
- Garbage Dreams
- Avoided Cost
- Crime and Garbage
- Culture, Values, and Garbage
- Economics of Consumption, International
- Economics of Consumption, U.S.
- Economics of Waste Collection and Disposal, International
- Economics of Waste Collection and Disposal, U.S.
- Environmental Justice
- Externalities
- Freeganism
- Garbage Art
- Garbage, Minimalism, and Religion
- Garblogging
- Greenpeace
- Material Culture Today
- Material Culture, History of
- Materialist Values
- Needs and Wants
- Population Growth
- Race and Garbage
- Rubbish Theory
- Socialist Societies
- Sociology of Waste
- Surveys and Information Bias
- Waste as Food
- U.S. States: Consumption, Waste Collection, and Disposal
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arizona Waste Characterization Study
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Waste, Municipal/Local
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