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- Our almost 100 renewable energy projects produce enough electricity to power more than 800,000 homes and save the equivalent of 8.2 million barrels of oil per year.
- We currently supply enough landfill gas to create more than 250 megawatts of green energy – enough to power 225,000 homes, replacing over 2 million barrels of oil per year.
- Waste Management, combined with its wholly owned subsidiary Recycle America (WMRA), is North America’s largest recycler handling 5.8 million tons of commodities each year, saving more than 70 million trees and enough energy to power 1.6 million households.
- Waste Management’s landfills provide more than 16,000 acres of protected land for wildlife, and 15 are certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council.
- In California, we reduced 247 tons of harmful air emissions from our fleet of trucks, including cutting smog-forming NOx (oxides of nitrogen) emissions by 226 tons per year – the equivalent of taking more than 28,000 passenger cars off the road.
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Student recyclers in the Antelope Valley spent over three weeks in April and May collecting aluminum cans as participants in the 2006 Total Trash Out contest. The annual school recycling contest sponsored by Waste Management has raised in excess of $365,000 over the past fifteen years for local AV schools!
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Waste Management of Antelope Valley is a long-time active member of Antelope Valley’s Illegal Dumping Task Force. The task force has been working for several years to attack the blight of illegal dumping in our neighborhoods and open lands.
Recently, Lockheed Martin and the City of Palmdale (both members of the IDTFC) spearheaded a cleanup at a site north of Avenue O and west of Division Street. Members of the Force picked up over 12 tons of material that was illegally dumped in a half square mile area. Lockheed volunteer cleanup members removed couches, tires, household debris and construction debris.
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Bill Minnis, Waste Management of Antelope Valley’s new District Manager, certainly never expected to end up in the trash business. After graduating from the University of Florida on a baseball scholarship, Bill played shortstop in the Los Angeles (former California) Angels minor league baseball organization. After a torn rotator cuff knocked him out of a professional baseball career, Bill worked with United Parcel Service before later accepting a position as District Manager of Waste Management’s Phoenix, Arizona location. Born in Glendale, California, but raised in Arizona, Bill worked for Waste Management of Phoenix for four and a half years before making the transition to Waste Management’s Antelope Valley location this past March 2006. The move to the AV location allows Bill more exposure to landfills, and the opportunity to work more closely with the local cities and the community.
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Don’t know what to do with your household hazardous waste or old electronic waste? Bring it on down to the Antelope Valley Environmental Collection Center (AVECC), located in Palmdale. So far in 2006, local residents have disposed of 236 tons of household hazardous waste and electronic waste and 2,801 cars have passed through the AVECC. We would like to thank the community for helping to keep dangerous waste out of local landfills!
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Make sure to practice the 3 R’s – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – EVERY DAY to help preserve and protect our fragile surroundings. Environmental problems have become so complex that many people think there’s nothing they can do to make a difference – but there is! If we all pitch in, we’ll save natural resources and energy, and keep the Antelope Valley looking beautiful.
We strongly encourage you to participate each week by placing all acceptable recycling materials in your designated recycling cart and place it curbside on your regularly scheduled service day.
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We’ve talked before regarding how we train our employees about being safe while on the job and the safety milestones celebrated by our facilities, but what is Waste Management doing to protect the total health of our employees? Much like any other employer in Los Angeles County, we want to make sure our employees and their families stay healthy and have access to healthcare providers who can help them do this. And just like every other employer, over the last five years we’ve watched health care costs go up over 50 percent. Last year, the annual premium for an employer health plan covering a family of four averaged nearly $11,000.
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