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WM, previously known as Waste Management, ranks as the largest integrated provider of traditional solid waste services in the United States, operating 262 active landfill sites and about 339 transfer stations that help with transporting waste efficiently and economically. The company serves residential, commercial, industrial, and medical end markets for waste collection, transfer, and disposal. The company also has an energy business emanating from the beneficial use of landfill gas and is a leading recycler in North America.

Republic Services Group is the second-largest waste management company by revenue and provides integrated waste management services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. With 208 active landfills, 248 transfer stations, and 75 recycling centers, Republic Services has reached $16 billion in annual revenue, focusing on recycling and environmental solutions. The company reports in three segments based on the Western United States (Group 1), Eastern United States (Group 2), and Environmental Solutions across North America (Group 3). Eighty-nine percent of total revenue comes from recycling and waste, with the remaining 11% from Environmental Solutions.

Waste Connections is a North American waste management company focused on integrated waste collection services. The firm primarily focuses on residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial waste collection, with a secondary market focus on rural areas. With 113 landfills and 222 transfer stations as of 2024, it is the third-largest waste management company by revenue. Revenue is split among six operating segments: Western, Southern, Eastern, Central, Canada, and Midsouth.

Veolia is the largest water company globally and a leading player in France. It is also involved in waste management with significant exposure to France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and Australia. The third pillar of the group is energy services, giving the group significant exposure to Central Europe. Veolia started to refocus its activities in 2011, leading to the exit of almost half of its countries and its transport activity The integration of most activities of Suez in 2022 drove an EBITDA increase of nearly 40%.

Veralto is a diversified industrial firm organized into two segments: water quality, product quality, and innovation. The water quality segment offers water analytics and water treatment solutions, while the product quality and innovation segment offers coding, packaging, and color solutions for consumer packaged goods and pharmaceuticals. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company has around 17,000 employees. Veralto generated approximately $5.5 billion in revenue in 2025.

Clean Harbors Inc is an environmental and industrial services provider that provides parts cleaning and related environmental services to commercial, industrial, and automotive customers. Its business segments are Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions. Environmental Services includes waste collection, transportation, treatment, recycling, and disposal, along with industrial maintenance services. Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions provides used oil collection and manufactures base oil, vacuum gas oil, and lubricants. The company generates the majority of its revenues from the Environmental Services segment and operates in the United States, with maximum revenue, and Canada.

Aramark, founded in 1936 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, operates as a food service company providing facility management and workplace solutions. The company primarily generates revenue from its North American food and support services segment, serving various clients, including schools, healthcare facilities, and entertainment venues.

Madison Air Solutions Corp is an HVAC and indoor air-quality technology company. Its segments are Commercial and Residential. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Commercial segment, which includes Commercial businesses that deliver well-engineered, custom, and semi-custom air quality systems to support process control, regulatory compliance, energy efficiency, and productivity in mission-critical environments; and the Residential segment, anchored by trusted brands like AprilAire, Broan-NuTone, Zephyr, and Others. Its geographic areas are the U.S, the Americas, Europe, and Other. The group generates the majority of its revenue from the U.S market.

GFL Environmental Inc is an environmental services company. Its offerings include non-hazardous solid waste management, infrastructure, soil remediation, and liquid waste management services. Its solid waste management business line, which generates the majority of the revenue, consists of the collection, transportation, transfer, recycling, and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste. Its Environmental Services business line includes liquid waste and soil remediation. The company's geographical segments are Canada and the United States. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the United States.

Rentokil Initial is the largest global provider of route-based pest control and commercial hygiene services, operating in 89 countries, with its largest operations in the United States following the acquisition of Terminix. The group also offers a range of specialist route-based services, including office and commercial space plant care, property care, and workwear rentals. The group serves a diverse client base of global food producers, hotel chains, industrial goods companies, restaurants, and individual residential customers.

Sodexo is one of the largest food service companies globally, operating in 45 countries with annual sales exceeding EUR 20 billion. Sodexo's model rests on operating on-premises catering facilities, rather than centralized industrial kitchens. Food services remain the largest business segment, contributing 66% of revenue in 2024. Sodexo has its own group purchasing organization, or GPO, Entegra, with annual purchasing of over EUR 37 billion. The company spun off its benefits and service business, Pluxee, and now focuses on food services and its second business, facilities-management services.

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corp is a growth-oriented, pure-play water management business that designs, procures, manufactures, and markets the broadest sustainable product portfolio of specification-driven water management solutions to improve health, hydration, human safety and the environment. Its product portfolio includes professional grade water safety and control products, flow systems products, hygienic and environmental products, and filtered drinking water products for public and private spaces that deliver superior value to building owners, positively impact the environment and human hygiene and reduce product installation time.

Canmax Technologies Co Ltd is engaged in Research and development, production and sales of new energy lithium battery materials products, anti-static ultra-clean technology products and medical equipment products.

ISS AS is a provider of workplace and facility service solutions with a focus on cleaning, property, catering, support, security, and facility management. It has four segments: Financial services, Professional services, Technology, and Life sciences. Its core services offered to customers consist of cleaning, food, technical, and workplace services. Revenue is mainly generated in European end markets, with the majority earned in the United Kingdom.

Umicore SA operates in the following business groups: Catalysis, Battery Materials, Specialty Materials, Recycling, and Corporate and Unallocated. Key revenue is derived from its Recycling segment, which treats complex waste streams containing precious and other specialty metals. The Battery Materials segment is engaged in developing, manufacturing, and marketing cathode materials (CAM) and its precursors (pCAM) for lithium-ion batteries. The Catalysis segment provides automotive catalysts for gasoline and diesel light and heavy-duty diesel applications, and the Specialty segment develops, manufactures, and distributes metal-based materials and chemicals for applications vital to everyday lives. Geographically, the group derives a majority of its revenue from Europe.

Elis SA provides multiservice solutions to various end markets including the hospitality, healthcare, and commerce industries. The company’s products and services include providing flat linen, workwear, hygiene products, and well-being services. The company operates in various countries across Europe and Latin America, with a majority of revenue stemming from France.

Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA is in the business of environmental services, end to end water management, construction and cement. The company's activities include services related to urban water treatment, waste recovery, end to end water cycle and also infrastructure construction projects, building construction, manufacturing of cement and concrete and operation of quarries and mineral deposits. The firm derives majority of its revenues from environmental services segment. It carries out international operations in European, the US and Latin American markets.

Casella Waste Systems Inc is a solid waste removal company, providing resource management services to residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial customers. The company's reportable segments on Geographical basis include Eastern, Western and Mid-Atlantic regions through the Resource solution segment. It generates maximum revenue from the Western region segment. The company's services include Recycling, Collection, Organics, Energy, Landfills, Special Waste as well as Professional Services.

Kurita Water Industries Ltd. is a provider of water treatment solutions in Japan. It operates through two segments: the Electronic market and the General water treatment market. The company provides a wide range of water treatment chemicals, systems, and services, including wastewater and ultrapure water solutions, facility maintenance, and environmental remediation, serving both industrial and household needs.

UniFirst Corp provides uniform and workwear programs, facility management, and safety supplies and services across North America. It designs, manufactures, rents, cleans, and sells uniforms and protective clothing, including flame-resistant and high-visibility garments. It also offers industrial wiping products, floor mats, cleaning supplies, first aid cabinets, and fire protection services such as inspection and maintenance. Serving various industries, the company provides customized uniforms and specialized cleaning for nuclear and cleanroom facilities. It operates through three segments: Uniform & Facility Service Solutions, First Aid & Safety Solutions, and Other, with the majority of revenue from Uniform & Facility Service Solutions.

Alliance Laundry Holdings Inc is designer and manufacturer of commercial laundry systems, serving diverse international markets. The company offers premium, durable laundry equipment under brands like Speed Queen, UniMac, Huebsch, Primus, IPSO, and others. It serves commercial laundry needs across healthcare, hotels, laundromats, and residential markets.

GEM Co Ltd is engaged in Waste battery recycling and power battery material manufacturing business, cobalt, nickel, and tungsten recycling and cemented carbide manufacturing business, renewable resources business, and environmental management business.

Zhejiang Weiming Environment Protection Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the solid waste disposal business. It is focused on solid waste-related technological development, equipment manufacturing and sales, project investment, project construction, and operational management. The company is also engaged in waste incineration power generation projects. The company's products include waste incineration grates, boilers, and flue gas treatment systems.

CECO Environmental Corp serves the energy, industrial, and other niche markets. The company operates through the Engineered Systems segment that serves the power generation, refinery, water/wastewater, and midstream oil and gas markets, and Industrial Process Solutions segment, which serves the broad industrial air pollution control, beverage can, fluid handling, electric vehicle production, food and beverage, semi-conductor, process filtration, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, wastewater treatment, wood manufacturing, desalination, and aquaculture markets. The majority of revenue is earned from the Engineered Systems Segment.

Cleanaway Waste Management is Australia’s largest waste management business with a national footprint in the collection and disposal of waste. It is active in municipal and commercial and industrial waste stream segments and in nonhazardous and hazardous liquid and medical waste. While Cleanaway is allocating greater capital to waste processing and treatment, earnings remain skewed toward waste collection. The company is particularly strong in commercial, industrial, and municipal waste collection with strong market share in all large Australian metro waste collection markets.

Organo Corp is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the water treatment engineering business. The company operates in two business divisions namely water treatment engineering and functional product. Its water treatment engineering business includes manufacturing, delivery and maintenance of pure water systems, ultra-pure water systems and wastewater treatment systems for industries, condensate de mineralizers for power stations, waterworks and sewage treatment systems for the public sector. The functional product business encompasses the sale of standardized water treatment equipment, water treatment chemicals, and food processing materials.

China Everbright Environment Group Ltd engages in construction and operation of environmental energy and water projects such as waste-to-energy plants, food and kitchen waste treatment projects, and sludge treatment and disposal projects. It also provides waste sorting, renewable resources utilization, and sanitation operation services. The company has several segments including Environmental energy project construction and operation, Greentech project construction and operation, Environmental water project construction and operation, and Others.

Wuchan Zhongda Group Co Ltd is engaged in industrial investment, equity investment, asset management, investment management, management consulting, information consulting services. It is also engaged in car sales and leasing, e-commerce technology services, used car transactions and services.

Munters Group AB is a provider of energy-efficient air treatment and climate control solutions predominantly within the food, pharmaceutical and data center and other sectors. The company operates in segments, which are: AirTech, Data Center Technologies, and FoodTech. The majority of the revenue is generated from its AirTech segment, which manufactures and markets products and solutions for controlling humidity and improving the indoor climate. Geographically, a majority of its revenue is generated from the United States and the rest from China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, and other markets.

MITIE Group PLC is a U.K.-based company. The company's reportable segments include Technical services, Business services, Central Government & Defence, Communities, and Corporate Centre. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the technical services and business services segments. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from the United Kingdom.

Tomra Systems ASA provides sorting and recycling solutions to equip customers for handling waste. The company creates and delivers sensor-based solutions that contribute to optimal resource productivity, in packaging, collection, compaction, recycling, ore sorting, and food production. It provides reverse vending machines, sensor-based sorting machines integrated post-harvest solutions, sensors for waste sorting applications, and other related products and solutions. The company's operating segments are; TOMRA Collection which generates key revenue, TOMRA Recycling, TOMRA Horizon, and TOMRA Food. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from Europe (excluding Northern Europe), followed by Northern Europe, America, Asia, and Oceania.

Fujian Longking Co Ltd is a atmospheric environmental protection equipment manufacturing company.It researches, develops, manufactures, and sells electrostatic precipitators, flue gas desulfuration units, air pollution control equipment, and other environmental protection products.

Brookfield Business Partners LP is a business services and industrials company. It focused on operating businesses that are either low-cost producers and benefit from high barriers to entry. The company's operating segment includes Business services; Infrastructure services; Industrials and Corporate and other. It generates maximum revenue from the Business Services segment. Geographically operates in USA, Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, UK, Mexico and Other, majority of revenue is from UK.

Shenzhen Expressway Corp Ltd is a Company engaged in the construction, operation, management, and investment of toll highways and environmental protection in China. Environmental protection mainly includes recycling and treating solid waste and clean energy power generation. The group has identified two reporting segments, namely the toll road segment and the environmental protection segment. The toll road segment takes charge of the operation and management of toll roads in Mainland China. The environmental protection segment operates and manages environmentally related infrastructure, mainly including solid waste treatment, clean energy, and other related fields. The majority of its revenue is derived from the Toll segment.

ABM Industries Inc is a provider of integrated facility solutions. It offers its solutions through five segments: Business and Industry, Manufacturing and Distribution, Education, Aviation and Technical solutions. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the business and industry segment, which encompasses janitorial, facilities engineering, and parking services for commercial real estate properties and sports and entertainment venues, hospitals, as well as vehicle maintenance and other services to rental car providers. The company mainly operates in the United States of America.

CIA Saneamento Do Parana-SANEPAR provides treated water supply sewage collection & treatment, and Solid waste management services. The company provides sanitation services to cities, smaller areas, and municipalities. The firm operates in two business segments: Water treatment & distribution and Sewage collection & treatment. It has a network for the withdrawal & distribution of drinking water, sewage collection, and the discharge of treated sewage. The firm operates landfills in Apucarana, Cornello, Procopio, and Cianorte for solid waste management. The majority of revenue get derived from the Water distribution and treatment segment.

Daiei Kankyo Co Ltd is a engaged in the waste-related business. It focuses on collection and transportation, intermediate treatment and recycling, and final disposal of both general and industrial waste and valuable resource recycing business.

Veridis Environment Ltd focuses on developing and implementing services and ventures in its core business waste, water, and energy. The company provides advanced waste collection services to local authorities, organizations, and industry.

Aguas Andinas SA delivers water-treatment solutions and other sanitation services under concession arrangements from the Chilean government. The company collects, cleans, and distributes water to residential, commercial, and industrial clients. Also, the company treats and disposes sewage and remnants from the process. Wastewater is decontaminated and used for irrigation systems. Aguas Andinas has two operating segments: water (a majority of total revenue) and nonwater. The company gathers water flowing from the Andes and has plants to transform it into a usable form. It uses tanks and an extensive underground network to distribute water to customers.

Badger Infrastructure Solutions Ltd is North America's provider of non-destructive excavating and related services, with operations in both the United States and Canada. Its key technology is the Badger Hydrovac, which is used predominantly for safe excavation around critical infrastructure and in congested underground conditions. The Badger Hydrovac uses a pressurized water stream to liquefy the soil cover, which is then removed with a powerful vacuum system and deposited into a storage tank. The company manufactures and designs its truck-mounted hydrovac units into its existing and future design and manufacturing processes. Badger’s two reportable segments are Canada and the United States, which is the key revenue generating market.

Wintech Nano (Suzhou) Co Ltd is engaged in semiconductor third-party testing and analysis services.

Orizon Valorizacao De Residuos SA is a waste treatment and recovery company. The company offers solid waste treatment services, treatment of gases, processing and industrialization of waste, monitoring groundwater, and environmental remediation services.

China Tianying Inc is an environmental protection and new energy enterprise. The company is engaged in the investment, build, operation and maintenance of MSW incineration power generation and steam manufacture, sludge treatment, food waste treatment, hazardous waste treatment, construction waste treatment, wastewater treatment and others. Its services include Research and Design, Urban Services, Disposal and Recycling, Equipment and Platforms and New Energy.

Befesa SA provides sustainable services for the recycling of hazardous residues from the Steel & Aluminium industry. It operates in two business segments: Steel dust recycling services & aluminum salt slags recycling services. In the Steel Dust Recycling segment, the company collects & recycles steel dust and other steel residues generated in the production of crude, stainless, and galvanized steel. The Aluminum Salt Slags recycling services are divided into salt sags & secondary aluminum segments. Its secondary aluminum operations include the collection and recycling of aluminum scrap and other aluminum residues. The geographical segments are Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, France, etc.

Derichebourg SA is a France-based company that offers environmental services. Its activities can be divided into two separate branches, the Environment Division and the Multiservices Division. The Environment Division's core business is the processing and disposal of waste, mainly metal waste and end-of-life products, with the recovery of secondary raw materials by using the appropriate processing methods. Derichebourg Multiservices, the group's Business Services arm, provides reception, cleaning, energy, property maintenance, and temporary staffing services separately or in tandem with the Derichebourg Group's waste management services.

GPS Participacoes E Empreendimentos SA is engaged in the provision of property security services, sanitation and cleaning services, indoor logistics services, electronic security services, implementation, operation and building maintenance, maritime hotel services on oil platforms, kitchen services and meal sales, highway maintenance services, and participation in companies through the acquisition of shares or capital quotas.

Target Hospitality Corp is a vertically integrated specialty rental and hospitality services company in the United States. The company provides vertically integrated specialty rental and comprehensive hospitality services including catering food services, maintenance, housekeeping, grounds-keeping, on-site security, overall workforce lodge management, and laundry service. Its operating segment includes HFS-South and HFS-Midwest; Government; TCPL Keystone and others. It generates a majority of its revenue from the Government segment which consists of specialty rental and vertically integrated hospitality services revenue from customers with Government contracts located in Texas.

Takuma Co Ltd develops a variety of technologies for waste and water treatment. It designs and constructs boilers, plant machinery, pollution-prevention plans, heating and cooling equipment, and sanitation equipment and facilities. Incinerators and recycling centers help sort, treat, and disperse resources in an efficient manner. The majority of customers are in Japan. The company works to provide solid waste treatment plants partnered with a selection of after-sales services and products. Takuma has four operating segments: domestic environment and energy, overseas environment and energy, package boiler, and equipment and system business. Cleaning systems, filters, and other equipment produce comfortable working conditions for customers.