Casella Waste Systems, Inc.

Casella Waste Systems, Inc. provides resource management services, primarily in the areas of solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services to the residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial customers in the United States. It offers non-hazardous solid waste services, including collection operations, transfer stations, material recycling facilities, and disposal facilities. The company also markets recyclable metals, aluminum, plastics, and paper and corrugated cardboard, which have been processed at its facilities; and recyclables purchased from third parties. In addition, it generates and sells electricity under a contract at a waste-to-energy facility. The company has operations in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It has a 50% joint venture with US GreenFiber LLC to manufacture, market, and sell cellulose insulation, which is used in residential dwellings and manufactured housings. As of August 31, 2010, the company owned and/or operated 31 solid waste collection operations, 30 transfer stations, 34 recycling facilities, 8 subtitle D landfills, and 1 landfill permitted to accept construction and demolition materials, as well as 1 waste-to-energy facility. Casella Waste Systems, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is based in Rutland, Vermont.