Waste Management Inc. through its subsidiaries provides environmental solutions to residential commercial industrial and municipal customers in the United States Canada Western Europe and internationally. It offers collection services including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station recovery facility or disposal site; owns and operates transfer stations; and owns develops and operates landfill gas-to-energy facilities that produce renewable electricity and renewable natural gas. It also operates materials processing and commodities recycling services including cardboard paper glass metals plastics construction and demolition materials and other recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes; recycling brokerage services such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties; and other strategic business solutions. In addition the company collects recyclable food and yard waste as well as markets and sells mulch compost soil amendments and renewable energy; offers remediation and construction and industrial waste services; and manages and markets fly ash. Further it provides Regulated Waste and Compliance Services (RWCS) which offers compliance programs as well as collection processing and disposal of regulated and specialized waste including medical pharmaceutical and hazardous waste; and Secure Information Destruction (SID) services that includes the collection of personal and confidential information for secure destruction and recycling of sorted office paper. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management Inc. in 1998. Waste Management Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston Texas.