Waste Connections, Inc. (WCN)

177.55 -0.24 (-0.13%) At close: 04:00PM EDT

Waste Connections, Inc.

6220 Highway 7
Suite 600
Woodbridge, ON L4H 4G3
Canada
905 532 7510
https://www.wasteconnections.com

Sector(s): Industrials
Industry: Waste Management
Full-time employees: 22,539

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Ronald J. Mittelstaedt	Founder, CEO, President & Director	3.02M	N/A	1963
Ms. Mary Anne Whitney	Executive VP & CFO	1.36M	N/A	1964
Mr. Darrell W. Chambliss	COO & Executive VP	1.37M	N/A	1964
Mr. Patrick J. Shea	Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary	1.22M	N/A	1971
Mr. James M. Little	Executive Vice President of Engineering & Disposal	1.09M	N/A	1962
Mr. Matthew Stephen Black	Senior VP & Chief Accounting Office	N/A	N/A	1973
Mr. Eric O. Hansen	Senior VP & Chief Information Officer	N/A	N/A	1965
Mr. Joe Gregory Box Jr.	Vice President of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. John M. Perkey	VP & Deputy General Counsel of Compliance and Government Affairs	N/A	N/A	1982
Mr. Colin G. Wittke	Vice President of Sales & Customer Engagement	N/A	N/A	1963

Amounts are as of 31 December 2023, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, disposal, and resource recovery 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; and intermodal services for the rail haul movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest through a network of intermodal facilities. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste resulting from oil and natural gas exploration and production activity, 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. Further, the company offers leasing services to its customers. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Woodbridge, Canada.

Corporate governance

Waste Connections, Inc.’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 October 2024 is 1. The pillar scores are Audit: 5; Board: 1; Shareholder rights: 2; Compensation: 3.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.