Not content to sit on its laurels as the largest trash collection company in the country, Waste Management is innovating in one of the unsexiest–but most important–sectors of the economy: garbage.

For 25 years as waste management power plant on the east bank of the Hudson River has been burning every last scrap of unrecyclable trash produced by the 1 million or so residents of New York's ...

In an effort to help consumers recycle properly, the National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA), the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), the Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) and ...

With the company throwing money at solutions that turn refuse into energy, it may soon be about more than just garbage. Not content to sit on its laurels as the largest trash collection company in the ...