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Article: Waste Management may be inline to assume city's garbage pickup, recycling srevice: ; Trash company's past littered with allegations
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- June 10, 2001
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Later this year, Charleston Mayor Jay Goldman hopes to hire Waste
Management Inc. to take over the city's garbage pickup and recycling
services.
So who is Waste Management?
It is the country's largest trash company. It made nearly $100
million last year alone.
It also has a long history of pollution violations, price-fixing
allegations and illegal hazardous waste disposal, according to
government records, environmental groups and company financial
documents.
Here's a sample, compiled from an Internet search:
* During the 1990s, there were $352 million in fines, settlements
and other legal judgments against Waste Management Inc. Many
involved allegations of pollution ...