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2. List of Superfund sites in Florida - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of Superfund sites in Florida designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

3. Chemical dumps in ocean off Southern California - Wikipedia

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   From the 1930s until the early 1970s, multiple government agencies (including the California Regional Water Quality Control Board and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) approved ocean disposal of domestic, industrial, and military waste at 14 deep-water sites off the coast of Southern California. Waste disposed included refinery wastes, filter ...

4. Waste Connections - Wikipedia

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   Waste Connections, Inc. is a North American integrated waste services company that provides waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services, primarily of solid waste. It has operations in both the United States and Canada. Its headquarters is located in The Woodlands, Texas. It is the third largest waste management company in North ...

5. Waste Management, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   In 2009, Waste Management purchased a 40-percent stake in Shanghai Environment Group Co Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shanghai Chengtou Holding Co Ltd. [21] SEG sought Waste Management's investment in order to benefit from Waste Management's experience in the waste disposal field, as well as improve their technology for waste disposal. [22]

6. Clean Harbors - Wikipedia

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   Clean Harbors, Inc. was founded in 1980 in Brockton, Massachusetts, [5] [6] a Boston suburb, by Alan S. McKim, who continues as the company's CEO and chairman. The company had one truck and four employees who transported and disposed of hazardous wastes for local businesses, and over time expanded to offer emergency hazardous waste cleaning services and industrial waste disposal, as well as ...

7. Republic Services - Wikipedia

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   Republic Services, Inc. is a North American waste disposal company whose services include non-hazardous solid waste collection, waste transfer, waste disposal, recycling, and energy services. It is the second largest provider of waste disposal in the United States (as measured by revenue) after Waste Management .

8. Browning-Ferris Industries - Wikipedia

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   By 1968, it had expanded into commercial and light industrial markets, and opened its first landfill. The company entered the recycling business in 1970, processing waste fibers and waste paper. From 1983 to 1990, it also processed toxic waste, such as chemical wastes and asbestos. The company processed medical waste in the 1990s. [1]

9. Winters Brothers - Wikipedia

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   Winters Bros. is a privately held waste disposal business in the Northeast United States. Its headquarters are in West Babylon, New York; it currently serves the market of New York, but previously also served Connecticut, Florida and Vermont. It sells its recovered products worldwide. [1] It is the largest waste management firm in Long Island.