As a leader in the environmental services industry, Waste Management is proud to recognize three of our outstanding employees who were recently honored by the Environmental Industries Association (EIA), an important waste and recycling trade group at their annual meeting in New Orleans on May 21.

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The team participated in the Trash On Your Back 5 Day Challenge, founded by Sustainability News & Entertainment’s Diana Dehm and inspired by MIT/Dartmouth College to innovate, motivate, and ask the simple question..."What is my personal trash impact on the planet?" The objective: carry all non-perishable trash personally generated in a specially designated bag wherever you go. The average person generates approximately 4.4 lbs. of trash per day; our team’s goal was to improve upon that average by producing less than 4 lbs. during the entire week.

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At last week’s Fortune Brainstorm GREEN conference, I got to hear from companies that are not only designing sustainable packaging for their products, but also thinking about product life-cycle by setting ambitious recycling goals and launching programs that encourage consumers to recycle. Surprising? It shouldn’t be.

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Waste Management (WM) today announced results for its quarter ended March 31, 2013. Revenues were $3.34 billion compared with $3.30 billion for the same 2012 period, while net income was $168 million compared with $171 million for the first quarter of 2012. WM’s first quarter yield of 1.4% was the highest level since 2011, while free cash flow was the highest since 2008 at $348 million. We returned $170 million to our shareholders in the form of dividends this quarter.

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Waste Management CEO David Steiner appeared yesterday on Jim Cramer’s “Mad Money” on CNBC to provide an update on the company’s strategy.

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