Thinking Green at Waste Management

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Thinking Green atWaste Management

• ULCT Midyear Conference
• April 10, 2008

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Thinking Green

• What are we talking about?

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Answer

• All of the foregoing
• Sustainability, Recycling, Profitability are all
  tied together.
• Its easy to think and act to protect our planet
  when it serves both our customers and our
  company.
• If we dont do this, we wont be around

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• I was skeptical and no longer am
• Check out our CEOs msg online at
  www.thinkgreen.com
• Its legit

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WM Snapshot

• leading provider of comprehensive waste and
  environmental services in North America
• 24000 collection and transfer trucks
• Collect 83 million tons of solid waste per year
• 413 collection operations, 370 transfer stations,
  283 active landfill disposal sites managing
  disposal of 125 million tons per year of solid
  waste
• 17 waste-to-energy plants

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• 95 beneficial-use landfill gas projects and 6
  independent power production plants
• 131 recycling plants
• more than 25 million residential customers
• provides collection services to more than two
  million businesses
• over 13 billion in sales

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• over 1 billion in sales of over 7 million tons
  of recyclables
• 50,000 employees

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So what are we reallydoing anyway?

• First lets talk Recycling

Waste Management wants to be a leader for
responsible recycling to insure that valuable
resources are reclaimed while simultaneously
insuring that potentially hazardous constituents
do not enter municipal waste streams, to conserve
valuable landfill space and to protect the
environment for future generations.
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Recycling Snapshot

• 7 million tons now
• CEO commitment of 20 million tons by 2020
• 2 million tons of fiber and non-fiber we buy from
  third party businesses that we market in North
  America and around the world.
• 5 million tons of primarily residential
  recyclables from our 131 recycling plants.

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Single Stream Residential Recycling (SS)
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Single Stream Recycling

• In 2001, Waste Management became the first major
  solid waste company to focus on residential
  single-stream recycling, which allows customers
  to mix recyclable paper, plastic and glass in one
  bin. Residential single-stream programs have
  greatly increased the recycling rates, recovering
  typically as much as 35 more materials
  (resources).
• Single-stream recycling is made possible through
  the use of various mechanized screens and optical
  sorting technologies.

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Commercial Single Stream Recycling
With residential SS recycling now well under way
WM is advancing similar collection and processing
capabilities for Commercial application Corrugated
, Office Paper, Beverage containers are all being
collected in the same container. This
completely reverses the ratio of trash to
recycling in many businesses.
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Third Party Recycling

• 3 million tons per year of material from
  printers, shredders, paper converters, envelope
  manufacturers, retail etc
• Brokerage
• Bale route (OCC)
• Loose volumes (e.g.. Shred trucks, small
  printers)

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Electronics Recycling

• A study by the US EPA showed that in 2005 used or
  unwanted electronics amounted to between 1.9 and
  2.2 million tons most of which was discarded in
  landfills with less than 400,000 tons recycled.
  500 million computers became obsolete in the last
  10 years.
• By recycling old electronics products, useful
  materials such as glass, plastics and metals can
  be collected and re-used to manufacture other
  products. Recycling not only reduces the amount
  of waste disposed, it also minimizes the
  extraction of new raw materials from the earth
  and resources required for processing, saving
  energy and reducing greenhouse gases in the
  process.

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Sony Take Back Program

• Began September 15th 2007 and enables consumers
  to drop off Sony electronic consumer products for
  free at 75 WM/WMRA.
• The program also allows other manufacturers
  consumer electronic products to be dropped off
  for a fee.
• As the Sony Take Back Program expands the number
  of eCycling drop off centers will expand to at
  least 150 within the year with at least one
  location in each state.
• Our goal is to have a drop off location within 20
  miles of 95 of the U.S. population

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By recycling old electronics products, useful
materials such as glass, plastics and metals can
be collected and re-used to manufacture other
products. Recycling not only reduces the amount
of waste disposed, it also minimizes the
extraction of new raw materials from the earth
and resources required for processing, saving
energy and reducing greenhouse gases in the
process.
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Landfill Gas

• With 300 landfills we have a vast renewable
  resource in landfill gas which is a medium Btu
  gas which can be used to fuel engine or turbine
  driven power generation
• Our renewable energy group provides landfill gas
  management, power plant construction and
  operation, and energy marketing. We helped
  pioneer the landfill gas-to-energy industry, and
  we continue to aggressively develop new
  technologies.
• We currently supply landfill gas to over 100
  beneficial-use gas projects in North America
• 470 megawatts of energy-enough to
  power approximately 400,000 homes-and replacing
  nearly two million tons of coal per year.

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Bioreactor Landfills

• http//www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/landfill
  /bioreactors.htm
• operates to rapidly transform and degrade organic
  waste
• increase in waste degradation and stabilization
  is accomplished through the addition of liquid
  and air to enhance microbial processes
• Decomposition and biological stabilization in
  years vs. decades in dry tombs
• Lower waste toxicity and mobility due to both
  aerobic and anaerobic conditions
• Reduced leachate disposal costs
• A 15 to 30 percent gain in landfill space due to
  an increase in density of waste mass
• Significant increased LFG generation that, when
  captured, can be used for energy use onsite or
  sold
• Reduced post-closure date

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• WM is currently engaged in research with the EPA,
  state agencies and leading researchers into
  Bioreactor landfills to determine the
  environmental and economic benefits of Next
  Generation Technology what practices best promote
  the safe operation of bioreactor landfills
• With small changes in the way landfills operate,
  our Next Generation Technology has the potential
  to transform landfills from permanent waste
  repositories to waste treatment systems and
  energy generation facilities, with far greater
  benefit to our communities.
• This technology is currently being employed at 10
  landfills across the US and Canada

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• The University of New Hampshire receives 80 to
  85 of its energy from landfill gas collected at
  WM
• Cascades Paper uses office waste paper from WM
  at a paper mill powered by our landfill gas. Our
  annual report is printed on it
• Waste Management helps power the BMWs
  manufacturing plant in Spartanburg SC with
  landfill gas piped from Palmetto landfill to
  generators to the plant which co-generates
  electricity and heats water
• Dells Global Campus 2.1 million square foot
  headquarters announced last week it is going 100
  Green using all of the power generated from our
  Austin landfill and the remainder from wind power

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• Recycling efforts, 3.8 million tons in 2005
• Landfill gas collection and control systems
• 500 diesel trucks have been replaced with cleaner
  natural gas
• 800 trucks have been retrofitted with special
  pollution controls such as oxidation catalysts or
  particulate trap filters, to reduce emissions
• As a founding member of the Chicago Climate
  Exchange (CCX), Waste Management has committed to
  reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by six
  percent from its 1998-2001 baseline emissions by
  2010

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Waste to Energy

• Our Wheelabrator division operates 16 waste to
  energy facilities
• The EPA has said waste to energy plants produce
  power with less environmental impact than almost
  any other source of electricity
• Each day enough power is generated for 700,000
  homes
• Ferrous metals are also recovered from these
  facilities

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The Green SquadSM works with businesses,
hospitals, educational institutions and
retailers. Audit teams map the sources and
composition of waste streams and provide a
comprehensive Audit Report that acts as a
step-by-step guide to expand recycling
capabilities, reduce waste disposal and optimize
overall program management costs.
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Wildlife Habitat

• Across the U.S. and Canada 33 WM sites earned the
  Wildlife Habitat Council certification.
• WHC -with our members and partners, we continue
  to share a vision to conserve and restore natural
  ecosystems for the benefit of humanity and the
  earth's biological diversity.
• In 2006 WM received the first ever Corporate
  Wildlife Habitat Councils President Award which
  was established to recognize individuals at
  member or partner organizations who have
  demonstrated leadership in community outreach,
  conservation education and environmental
  stewardship. Our recipients demonstrate
  leadership attributes and an innovative strategic
  vision to building conservation programs within
  economically viable, sustainable communities.

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Elephant Conservation

• Announced Feb 7, 08, The National Elephant
  Center is creating a national elephant
  conservation center in central Florida. The
  Center is on 300 acres owned by WM. The first
  elephants arrive next year
• This land is adjacent to land we maintain as a
  natural area certified by The Wildlife Habitat
  Council and provides food and nesting areas for
  the threatened Florida Sandhill Crane as well as
  other species

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• We see our landfills as a form of recycling with
  beneficial re-use of the land at our sites. We
  have 10s of thousands of acres for community
  parks, recreation areas and wildlife habitats.

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Message from the boss
The fact is we are not just a company. We are
people. We are stewards of the earths
resources. We are citizens of the communities in
which we work. Whether at work or at home, we
have the same obligation to conduct ourselves in
a safe and responsible manner. We have the same
duty to help build better communities, to respect
and protect our natural resources, to respect and
protect our people and to do the right
thing David Steiner CEO
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