Renewable Energy
With a steadfast commitment to sustainability, WM is breaking new ground in the production of biogas and other renewables.
Explore Sustainable Technology
See how WM is putting technology to work across our operations.
Modern Landfills
Organics Recycling
CONNECTED LANDFILL℠
Sustainable Technology
Modern Landfills
Organics Recycling
CONNECTED LANDFILL℠
Redefining Our Approach
Powering the Grid
Our landfill gas helps power the electric grid, providing clean energy to homes.
Roaming your Neighborhood
Our CNG (compressed natural gas) trucks are sent into your neighborhoods, where they pick up waste and recycling.
Landfills as a Fuel Source
We use cutting-edge technology to capture methane gas at landfill waste sites and turn it into RNG (renewable natural gas).
Fueling our Smart Fleet
After the RNG is produced, we fuel up our CNG fleet with the RNG, closing the loop.
Powering the Grid
Our landfill gas helps power the electric grid, providing clean energy to homes.
Roaming your Neighborhood
Our CNG (compressed natural gas) trucks are sent into your neighborhoods, where they pick up waste and recycling.
Landfills as a Fuel Source
We use cutting-edge technology to capture methane gas at landfill waste sites and turn it into RNG (renewable natural gas).
Fueling our Smart Fleet
After the RNG is produced, we fuel up our CNG fleet with the RNG, closing the loop.
Landfill Gas-To-Energy
Look below the surface and you'll see cutting-edge technology powering the largest landfill-gas-to-energy producer in North America. Through the production, storage, distribution and transmission of methane gas, WM provides a crucial source of power for residences, businesses and our trucks.
Environmental Benefits of Renewable Energy
Replacing Fossil Fuels
Last year we committed to finding new and innovative ways to capture clean-burning natural gas from our landfills and use it to fuel our trucks.
Landfills Become Solar Energy Fields
We've reclaimed former landfill space to turn into solar fields. Our closed landfills are ideal for these projects because of their large scale and close proximity to existing infrastructure.
Powering Our Neighborhoods
With the energy generated by our landfill gas to energy programs and our solar energy reclamation projects, we’re powering over 300,000 homes annually.
Partnering to Revitalize Landfills
Our belief in beneficial reuse doesn't just apply to the materials we take in, but also to the landfills that safely hold those materials. We've helped seven closed landfill sites continue to be useful by partnering with the Citizens Energy Corporation and Captona Partners on the first four projects to install solar panels on closed landfill sites. These solar fields power homes in the region, and we're not stopping there. We're planning on expanding the program to different areas across the country.
