Size of United States Solid Waste Industry

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The solid waste management industry provides a vital public service that ensures the health and safety of citizens across the United States. To date, the availability of independent, authoritative, comprehensive, and statistically defensible U.S. solid waste industry data has been limited, due in part to the significant number of public and private sector players in the solid waste industry and the wide range of services they provide.

Recognizing the need for such comprehensive industry information, the Environmental Research and Education Foundationl (“Foundation”) retained R. W. Beck, Inc. and 1 Chart-well Information Publishers (“Chartwell”) to conduct an independent survey to measure the U.S. solid waste industry, in terms of total revenue, employment, quantities of solid waste managed, and other meaningful industry statistics (“National Survey”).

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This comprehensive study targeted publicly traded, privately held, and public sector organizations in the industry. Specifically, the study sought to capture data on solid waste and recyclables collection and hauling operations, as well as operation of the following solid waste industry facility types: municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, construction and demolition (C&D) landfills, transfer stations, waste-to-energy (WIE) facilities, material recovery facilities (MRF), compost facilities, and other solid waste management facilities.

The study sought to measure the industry based on generally accepted financial and operating data, such as revenues, employment, and waste disposal and collection quantities (as well as others). Many of the results in this report were derived from primary source data provided by companies and organizations in the indusfry. However, due to the size and variety of the industry, some of the results shown in the report were derived from statistical sampling and extrapolation methods. Note that all data collection was performed from late 1999 through early 2000, and study results reflect annual estimates for calendar year 1999.