The world's rubbish is collected, sorted, burned, buried and turned back into raw materials by an industry that rewards scale and punishes sentiment: three listed American haulers whose landfills internalise their own trucks' loads; a French pair — Veolia and the new, smaller SUEZ — still dividing the settlement of the largest takeover the sector has seen; family houses in Germany, France and Spain that publish turnover but never profit; private-equity platforms bought and sold for billions on the strength of treatment plants and thirty-year city contracts; and, in China, a state champion whose waste-to-energy concessions process more tonnage than most countries produce. This guide maps who actually runs each of these companies in October 2026, what each one owns, what it publishes about its size — and, where the honest answer is that it publishes nothing, says so.

The list covers 25 companies in four categories: 9 integrated haulers, 6 diversified environmental groups, 6 hazardous and industrial specialists, and 4 regional majors. For each: its chief executive and chairman with their exact published titles, the rest of its published leadership, its ownership, its business lines in full, its customers as it describes them, its revenue with its year and its source, its facilities and fleet where it publishes them, its headquarters and footprint, its official website and only the contact details it publishes itself. Two famous names are deliberately not rows: Stericycle, acquired by WM in November 2024, is treated inside the WM entry, and Sembcorp's waste business, sold in March 2025, is treated as the context entry it now is — with its buyer named.

INTEGRATED HAULER

1. WM (WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.) — HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES

Founded 1968 · Integrated hauler

Leader: James C. Fish Jr., Chief Executive Officer (CEO since November 2016; retirement announced 26 August 2026 — he remains CEO at press time, October 2026) Chair: Kathleen M. Mazzarella, Chair of the Board of Directors

Leadership: President / COO: John J. Morris, President (President and Chief Operating Officer in the company's Q1 2026 reporting; appointed President and Chief Executive Officer effective 4 January 2027, when he also joins the Board); Tara J. Hemmer, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (promoted from Chief Sustainability Officer in May 2026, per company reporting) CFO: David L. Reed, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (succeeded Devina Rankin) Other C-suite: Charles C. Boettcher, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer; Rafael E. Carrasco, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and President, WM Healthcare Solutions; Johnson Varkey, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Senior leadership: Executive officers as published in WM's 2026 earnings-call rosters and proxy reporting: Fish, Morris, Hemmer, Reed, Boettcher, Carrasco, Varkey, John A. Carroll (Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer) and Edward A. Egl (Vice President, Investor Relations)

Business: Collection (residential, commercial and industrial); recycling and materials recovery facilities (MRFs); landfill disposal; transfer stations; medical waste and secure information destruction (WM Healthcare Solutions, the former Stericycle); hazardous and special waste services for industrial customers; landfill-gas renewable natural gas (RNG) and recycling automation programmes

Customers: Municipal and residential customers under franchise and open-market contracts; commercial customers; industrial customers; healthcare customers (hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical and dental practices) through WM Healthcare Solutions — categories as published by the company

Scale: Revenue US$25.204 billion, FY2025 (year ended 31 December 2025; WM fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 release, January 2026), up from US$22.063 billion in FY2024; adjusted operating EBITDA US$7.582 billion, FY2025

Facilities & fleet: North America's largest solid-waste network of landfills, transfer stations and MRFs, plus the former Stericycle treatment network (at acquisition: 18 medical-waste incinerators, 71 autoclave/alternative treatment facilities and 177 transfer stations, as reported at announcement in 2024); a single consolidated dated count of every facility class was not published in the sources consulted — stated plainly Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated figure in the sources consulted — not published; the former Stericycle fleet was reported at about 5,200 vehicles at the time of the 2024 acquisition announcement

Footprint: United States and Canada, nationwide; WM Healthcare Solutions also serves healthcare customers in the markets Stericycle served internationally (North America)

Structure: Public company, NYSE: WM; widely held, no controlling shareholder

Website: wm.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: 800 Capitol Street, Suite 3000, Houston, TX 77002, United States (as published by the company) · Access: Service and contracts via wm.com and local WM offices; investor relations via investors.wm.com; healthcare services via the WM Healthcare Solutions pages (Stericycle brand pages continue for customers)

Founded in Chicago in 1968 by Dean Buntrock and Wayne Huizenga from the Ace Scavenger lineage; grew by roll-up into North America's largest solid-waste company and listed in New York. STERICYCLE INSIDE THIS ENTRY: Stericycle, Inc. (founded 1989, Bannockburn, Illinois; NASDAQ-listed from 1996; the largest regulated medical-waste provider in North America, with the Shred-it secure information destruction business acquired in 2015) no longer exists independently — WM completed its acquisition on 4 November 2024 for $62.00 per share in cash, a total enterprise value of about $7.2 billion, and Stericycle stock ceased trading that day. Its regulated medical waste and secure information destruction businesses are reported by WM together as WM Healthcare Solutions, led by Rafa Carrasco, who led the integration. Stericycle's last standalone revenue was US$2.66 billion (2023). It is therefore treated inside this WM entry and as a named scope note in the README, not as a separate row. The scale benchmark for the industry: it internalises its own collected volumes in its own landfills, and since November 2024 it also owns the continent's premier medical-waste network CEO succession is the live fact of this entry: Fish is CEO in October 2026, Morris is CEO-elect for 4 January 2027, and any listing that still shows Morris as only COO, or Fish without the succession, is out of date. Advanced Disposal (acquired 2020) is likewise inside this entry, not a row.

Sources: WM full-year 2025 earnings release, Jan 2026 (investors.wm.com); WM announcement 'Jim Fish to Retire from WM; John Morris Named as Next CEO', 26 Aug 2026; WM / Business Wire, 'WM Completes Acquisition of Stericycle', 4 Nov 2024; Waste Dive CEO-pay survey, 2026; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

2. REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. — PHOENIX, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES

Founded 1998 · Integrated hauler

Leader: Jon Vander Ark, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO since June 2021) Chair: Not verified in sources consulted — the company publishes its full board on republicservices.com; a chair name was not confirmed from an official source for this edition and is not guessed

Leadership: President / COO: Gregg Brummer, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (per the company's published leadership roster) CFO: Brian M. DelGhiaccio, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Other C-suite: Catharine D. Ellingsen, Executive Vice President (chief legal and administrative functions in the published roster); Brian A. Bales, Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer; Amanda Hodges, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer; Courtney Rodriguez, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Senior leadership: Named executive team as published by the company and in its earnings-call rosters (2025–26): Vander Ark, DelGhiaccio, Brummer, Ellingsen, Bales, Hodges, Rodriguez, Jeni Bell (Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer) and Aaron Evans (Vice President, Investor Relations)

Business: Collection (residential, commercial, industrial); recycling and MRFs including polymer centres; landfill disposal; transfer stations; Environmental Solutions — hazardous and industrial waste treatment, field and emergency-response services (the former US Ecology platform); renewable natural gas from landfill gas

Customers: Municipal/residential, commercial and industrial customers, and industrial and energy customers for Environmental Solutions — categories as published by the company

Scale: Revenue US$16.59 billion, FY2025 (year ended 31 December 2025; Republic fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, February 2026), up 3.5% on FY2024

Facilities & fleet: A national US network of collection companies, transfer stations, recycling centres and landfills plus Environmental Solutions treatment facilities; a single dated count of each class was not published in the sources consulted — stated plainly Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: United States, nationwide (operations in more than 40 states as published historically by the company) (North America)

Structure: Public company, NYSE: RSG; largest shareholder Cascade Investment, L.L.C. (the Bill Gates investment vehicle), holding roughly one-third of the shares in company filings

Website: republicservices.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Investor@RepublicServices.com (investor inquiries, as published in company releases; media inquiries: Media@RepublicServices.com) · Headquarters: 18500 N. Allied Way, Phoenix, AZ 85054, United States (as published by the company) · Access: Service via republicservices.com and local operating companies; investor inquiries to the published investor email above

Created in 1998 as the waste arm spun out of AutoNation (Republic Waste Industries lineage, with roots in the 1980s roll-ups); grew by acquisition — Allied Waste in 2008 was the transformational deal — into the second-largest US environmental services company. It acquired US Ecology in 2022, which built its Environmental Solutions (hazardous and industrial) business. The US No. 2, and the clearest US example of an integrated hauler building a hazardous-waste second engine (Environmental Solutions) beside collection and disposal Chairmanship is this entry's named gap (see README). The 'Blue Planet' sustainability platform and the polymer-centre plastics investments are the company's stated differentiators in its own reporting.

Sources: Republic Services full-year 2025 results release, Feb 2026; Republic leadership pages and earnings-call rosters, 2025–26 (republicservices.com); Waste Dive, Feb 2026; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

3. WASTE CONNECTIONS, INC. — THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (INCORPORATED IN ONTARIO, CANADA)

Founded 1997 · Integrated hauler

Leader: Ronald J. Mittelstaedt, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer Chair: Not verified in sources consulted — not confirmed from an official source for this edition and not guessed

Leadership: President / COO: Ronald J. Mittelstaedt holds the President title jointly with CEO; Darrell E. Chambliss, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (as published in company reporting) CFO: Mary Anne Whitney, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Other C-suite: Named executives beyond CEO/CFO/COO are published in the company's proxy and leadership pages; no fuller single roster was verified for this edition — stated plainly Senior leadership: Senior regional presidents run the company's decentralised regions; the company publishes regional leadership rather than a long corporate C-suite list — stated as published

Business: Collection (residential, commercial, industrial roll-off); recycling and MRFs; landfill disposal including the Chiquita Canyon site (closed to waste acceptance in 2024–25, a continuing remediation item in company reporting); transfer and intermodal rail-waste services in the Pacific Northwest; exploration & production (E&P) waste treatment, recovery and disposal in US oil basins; renewable natural gas projects

Customers: Municipal, residential, commercial and industrial customers; oil and gas producers for E&P waste — categories as published

Scale: Revenue US$9.467 billion, FY2025 (year ended 31 December 2025; Waste Connections fourth-quarter 2025 results, February 2026), up 6.1% on FY2024; adjusted EBITDA US$3.125 billion, FY2025

Facilities & fleet: Hundreds of collection operations, landfills, transfer stations and MRFs across the US and Canada, plus E&P waste facilities; a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted — stated plainly Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: United States (secondary and suburban markets nationwide) and Canada (North America)

Structure: Public company, TSX/NYSE: WCN; widely held

Website: wasteconnections.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: 3 Waterway Square Place, Suite 110, The Woodlands, TX 77380, United States (principal executive offices, as published) · Access: Service via wasteconnections.com local operating companies; investor relations via the company's site

Founded in 1997 by Ronald J. Mittelstaedt and partners; built a decentralised model of secondary and suburban markets across the US and Canada, acquiring hundreds of local operators while keeping local brands and management. Listed in Toronto and New York; corporate seat in Ontario with principal executive offices in The Woodlands, Texas. The decentralised challenger: culture- and margin-led (a 33% adjusted EBITDA margin in FY2025), it deliberately avoids the largest metro franchises its two bigger rivals contest Chiquita Canyon (California) landfill reaction and closure costs are a named continuing item in the company's 2025 reporting and are recorded here rather than smoothed over.

Sources: Waste Connections Q4/FY2025 results, Feb 2026 (wasteconnections.com / PR Newswire); Waste Dive, Feb 2026; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

4. GFL ENVIRONMENTAL INC. — VAUGHAN, ONTARIO, CANADA

Founded 2007 · Integrated hauler

Leader: Patrick Dovigi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Chair: Patrick Dovigi, Chairman of the Board (as published in company governance material)

Leadership: President / COO: President/COO title not published as a single group role in the sources consulted — not published CFO: Luke Pelosi, Chief Financial Officer (named as CFO in the company's Q4 2025 reporting) Other C-suite: Fuller named executive roster is published in the company's management information circular; it was not reproduced from an official source for this edition — stated plainly Senior leadership: Regional solid-waste leadership across its Canadian and US platforms is published by the company on gflenv.com; the consolidated roster is in the annual circular

Business: Solid-waste collection (residential, commercial, industrial); recycling and MRFs, including extended producer responsibility (EPR) services in Ontario; landfill disposal; transfer stations; soil remediation and liquid waste lines were largely in the Environmental Services business sold in 2025 — stated so the current perimeter is not overstated

Customers: Municipal, residential, commercial and industrial customers in Canada and the United States — as published

Scale: Revenue C$6.62 billion, FY2025 (Canadian dollars, as reported for the post-divestiture solid-waste perimeter; GFL full-year 2025 results, February 2026); adjusted EBITDA about C$1.99 billion at a 30% margin, FY2025

Facilities & fleet: Solid-waste operations across Canada and the US — collection fleets, MRFs, transfer stations and landfills; a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted — stated plainly Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted; the company reports more than 15,000 employees (2025)

Footprint: Canada (notably Ontario and the West) and the United States (Midwest, South and Southeast-weighted) (North America)

Structure: Public company, NYSE/TSX: GFL; major holders include BC Partners, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and founder Patrick Dovigi (company filings)

Website: gflenv.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: 100 New Park Place, Suite 500, Vaughan, ON L4L 0H9, Canada (as published by the company) · Access: Service via gflenv.com and local brands; investor relations via gflenv.com

Founded in Vaughan, Ontario, in 2007 by Patrick Dovigi as Green For Life; the fastest roll-up in North American waste history, reaching a 2020 New York listing and the No. 4 position, then reshaped in 2025 by the sale of its Environmental Services business, which cut reported revenue to the solid-waste base and funded a C$3 billion share repurchase (in US-dollar reporting of the transaction, about US$3 billion of buybacks in 2025 coverage). North America's youngest top-four hauler, built in under two decades, now converting from acquirer to cash-return story after the 2025 divestiture All GFL figures in this guide are on the post-divestiture perimeter; pre-2025 comparisons that include Environmental Services are not comparable and are not used.

Sources: GFL Environmental Q4/FY2025 results, Feb 2026 (gflenv.com / CNW); Waste Dive CEO-pay and earnings coverage, 2026; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

5. BIFFA PLC (BIFFA GROUP) — HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM

Founded 1912 · Integrated hauler

Leader: Michael Topham, Chief Executive Officer (CEO since 2018; previously Chief Financial Officer) Chair: Not verified in sources consulted for the post-take-private board in sources consulted — the pre-2023 listed chairmanship is not carried as current

Leadership: President / COO: Maxine Mayhew, Chief Operating Officer, Collections & Specialist Services, and Mick Davis, Chief Operating Officer, Resources & Energy (titles as published in company leadership material) CFO: Chief Financial Officer not confirmed from a current official source for this edition — not verified in sources consulted (Richard Pike held the CFO title in the listed era and is not carried as current without verification) Other C-suite: David Gooding, Chief Information Officer; Sarah Parsons, General Counsel & Company Secretary; Jane Pateman, Group Human Resources Director (titles as published in company leadership material) Senior leadership: Divisional managing directors for Municipal, Industrial & Commercial and Resources & Energy are published by the company; the full post-take-private executive roster is thinner than in the listed era — stated plainly

Business: Collections (Industrial & Commercial, and Municipal household collections and street cleansing); Resources & Energy — recycling and MRFs, plastics recycling, food-waste anaerobic digestion, energy-from-waste and landfill; hazardous and specialist waste services; surplus redistribution through Company Shop (majority stake)

Customers: About 106,659 industrial and commercial customers (FY25 published figure) and more than 30 UK local authorities for municipal services — categories and counts as published

Scale: Revenue £1.89 billion, FY25 (financial year reported February 2026), up 9.4% on £1.73 billion in FY24, about 8 points of it from acquisitions including Renewi UK Municipal; EBITDA £271.1 million, FY25; Collections revenue £1.09 billion, FY25

Facilities & fleet: 66 waste transfer stations (FY25 published figure) within a national network of depots, MRFs, plastics and food-waste plants, energy-from-waste interests and landfills; about 3.57 million tonnes collected and 3.91 million tonnes processed in FY25 (company reporting) Fleet: 3,722 frontline collection vehicles (FY25 published figure); about 11,050 employees (FY25)

Footprint: United Kingdom, nationwide — services reach about 95% of UK postcodes (company figure) (Europe)

Structure: Private: Energy Capital Partners (ECP), which acquired Biffa in January 2023; ECP combined with Bridgepoint Group in 2024 — the operating company is Biffa plc, no longer London-listed

Website: biffa.co.uk · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Coronation Road, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP12 3TZ, United Kingdom (registered office, as published) · Access: Commercial service via biffa.co.uk; municipal services are delivered under local-authority contracts; no published general email — contact is routed through the site

Founded in 1912 by Richard Henry Biffa as Richard Biffa Limited, removing ash and clinker from power stations; became the UK's best-known waste brand, was listed in London, and was taken private by Energy Capital Partners (ECP) in January 2023. In October 2024 it completed the purchase of Renewi's UK Municipal business (five local-authority contracts), the largest recent reshaping of the UK market. The UK's household-name hauler, now privately owned and the consolidator of the UK municipal market after the Renewi transaction Biffa is the mirror entry to Renewi (No. 23): the same UK Municipal contracts appear in Biffa's perimeter from October 2024 and out of Renewi's.

Sources: Biffa FY25 results reporting, Feb 2026 (letsrecycle.com reporting of Biffa Group results); Biffa leadership and FY25 operating figures as published by the company; Renewi sale completion announcement, 10 Oct 2024; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

6. FCC MEDIO AMBIENTE (FCC ENVIRONMENT) — MADRID, SPAIN

Founded 1900 (FCC Group) · Integrated hauler

Leader: Iñigo Sanz, Chief Executive Officer (Director General) of FCC Medio Ambiente; at group level, Pablo Colio Abril, Chief Executive Officer of FCC Group Chair: Esther Alcocer Koplowitz, Chairwoman of FCC Group (group chair; the division has no separate published chair)

Leadership: President / COO: Jordi Payet, Managing Director for the UK, Central & Eastern Europe and the USA, FCC Medio Ambiente (title as published in company material) CFO: Divisional CFO not published as a named role in sources consulted; group finance is published at FCC Group level Other C-suite: Adolfo Baturone, Director of Iberia, FCC Medio Ambiente; Ernesto Peres, Director of International Development (titles as published in company material) Senior leadership: Country leadership includes FCC Environment (UK) and FCC Environmental Services (USA) managing directors, published on the divisional sites

Business: Municipal waste collection and street cleansing; recycling and sorting; waste treatment including energy-from-waste and mechanical-biological treatment (FCC Environment in the UK); industrial waste services; in the wider FCC Group the division sits beside Water (Aqualia), Construction and Concessions, which are not waste businesses and are not counted here

Customers: Municipalities (its core, in Spain, the UK, Central Europe and the US), and commercial and industrial customers — as published

Scale: Environment division revenue €4,740 million in 2025, division EBITDA €790 million (FCC Group 2025 results) — the waste figure carried in this guide; FCC Group revenue €9,700 million in 2025 is a multi-business total and is NOT a waste figure

Facilities & fleet: Treatment and energy-from-waste plants in the UK (including the Lincolnshire and Buckinghamshire energy-from-waste facilities operated by FCC Environment), Spanish treatment plants and a US treatment footprint acquired in 2024; a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted — stated plainly Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated group figure in sources consulted

Footprint: Spain (home market), United Kingdom, Portugal, Central & Eastern Europe, France and the United States; FCC Group operates in over 25 countries (Europe / North America)

Structure: Division of FCC, S.A. (listed in Madrid); FCC's majority shareholder is Inversora Carso (Carlos Slim Helú interests), with Esther Alcocer Koplowitz a significant shareholder — group structure as published

Website: fccenviro.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Avenida del Camino de Santiago 40, Las Tablas, 28050 Madrid, Spain (FCC Group headquarters, as published) · Access: Via fccenviro.com and country sites (fccenvironment.co.uk in the UK); municipal work is won by public tender

The environmental services division of Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), the Madrid group founded in 1900 and controlled by Inversora Carso with the Koplowitz family as historic shareholders. FCC Medio Ambiente is Spain's municipal-services incumbent — street cleansing and waste collection for Spanish cities for over a century — and trades as FCC Environment in the United Kingdom and FCC Environmental Services in the United States and France, expanded by 2024 acquisitions in the UK, US and France. A century-old municipal-services house whose waste division alone (€4.74 billion) would rank among Europe's largest — but which is only reported inside a construction-and-water group, the honest framing this entry keeps The division/group distinction is this entry's central honesty point: only the €4,740 million Environment figure is used as waste scale.

Sources: FCC Group 2025 results and corporate presentation (fccco.com / fcc.es, 2026); FCC 125th-anniversary release naming Chairwoman Esther Alcocer Koplowitz and CEO Pablo Colio Abril, Sep–Oct 2025; FCC Medio Ambiente leadership material; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

7. REMONDIS SE & CO. KG — LÜNEN, NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA, GERMANY

Founded 1934 · Integrated hauler

Leader: No single group CEO title is published for REMONDIS SE & Co. KG — not published; the group is led by its management board under the RETHMANN board, whose chairman is Ludger Rethmann (stated plainly rather than assigning a CEO title the company does not use) Chair: Ludger Rethmann, Chairman of the Executive Board, RETHMANN SE & Co. KG (parent board chairman, as published by the group)

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single published title; operations are led by divisional and regional managing directors (e.g., Björn Becker, CEO and Managing Director, REMONDIS Australia, as published) CFO: Not published as a single named group role in sources consulted Other C-suite: Not published — REMONDIS publishes divisional management, not a corporate C-suite roster Senior leadership: Regional and divisional managing directors published country by country on remondis.com and national sites

Business: Recycling (metals, plastics, glass, paper, commercial waste); municipal and industrial services including collection; hazardous and industrial waste treatment; energy-from-waste and biomass; water management (drinking water and wastewater, a material division stated here so the revenue is not read as waste-only); remediation and raw-materials trading

Customers: Municipalities, industrial and commercial customers, and water customers — as published

Scale: Turnover €13.2 billion in 2024, with about 46,000 employees (REMONDIS group reporting via REMONDIS Aktuell); RETHMANN Group turnover €24.5 billion in 2024. REMONDIS reported 'modest growth' again in 2025 (EUWID, July 2026) without a figure in the report consulted — the dated 2024 figure is carried, not updated by guesswork. Turnover includes the water division

Facilities & fleet: About 800 business locations in 34 countries on four continents (company reporting, 2024), including sorting and recycling plants, energy-from-waste plants, water plants, composting and landfill sites Fleet: Group collection fleet count not published as a single dated figure; the Australian subsidiary alone reports 600 waste collection trucks (2026)

Footprint: Germany (home market and European leader), Europe-wide, Australia and New Zealand, and operations on four continents (Europe / Global)

Structure: Private: RETHMANN SE & Co. KG (family-owned; REMONDIS is its largest division, alongside Rhenus logistics and SARIA rendering)

Website: remondis.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Brunnenstraße 138, 44536 Lünen, Germany (as published by the company) · Access: Via remondis.com and national subsidiaries; municipal work by tender; no published general email

Founded in 1934 in Selm, Germany, by Josef Rethmann; still wholly family-owned through the RETHMANN Group of Lünen. Grew from German municipal services into one of the world's largest privately owned recycling, services and water companies, expanding across Europe and into Australia, and buying businesses including the French Schroll Group stake in 2024. The world's largest family-owned environmental group — bigger by turnover than most listed rivals, and deliberately private, publishing turnover but not profit Two named gaps ride with this entry: no published CEO title (the board structure is the fact) and no profit disclosure, by family-company practice.

Sources: REMONDIS Aktuell, 'REMONDIS continues moderate growth' (2024 figures: €13.2 billion, ~46,000 employees, ~800 locations, 34 countries); EUWID Recycling, July 2026 (2025 modest growth); RETHMANN Group reporting; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

8. URBASER, S.A.U. — MADRID, SPAIN

Founded 1990 · Integrated hauler

Leader: Fernando Abril-Martorell, Chief Executive Officer (the executive team recruited under Platinum Equity, and CEO in both the sale announcement of February 2026 and the completion announcement) Chair: Not verified in sources consulted for the post-completion Blackstone/EQT board in sources consulted

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single published title in sources consulted CFO: Not published as a named role in sources consulted for this edition — stated plainly Other C-suite: Not published as a consolidated published roster in sources consulted Senior leadership: Country and business-line leadership (Urban Services; Municipal Waste Treatment; Industrial Waste Treatment) is published on urbaser.com; the full executive roster under the new owners was not published in the sources consulted

Business: Urban Services — municipal waste collection, street cleansing and water-cycle services; Municipal Waste Treatment — sorting, recycling, composting, biomethanisation and energy-from-waste; Industrial Waste Treatment — hazardous and industrial waste treatment and regeneration

Customers: Municipalities serving more than 60 million people worldwide, and industrial customers — as published in the 2026 transaction releases

Scale: Revenue €2,400 million in 2024 (latest filed financial statements reported at the 2026 sale), with operating profit of nearly €190 million; contracted revenue backlog of more than €15 billion at sale; more than 50,000 employees (transaction releases, 2026). No 2025 revenue was published in the sources consulted — stated plainly

Facilities & fleet: A network of waste treatment plants across its markets including energy-from-waste, sorting and biomethanisation facilities built up with €1.6 billion of investment in 2021–26; a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: Spain (home market), France, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Latin America and the Middle East and Asia markets it serves; Argentina is excluded from the 2026 sold perimeter (Europe / Global)

Structure: Private equity: Blackstone and EQT (joint owners from the completion of the sale in 2026; formerly Platinum Equity, 2021–2026); the Argentine business was retained by Platinum Equity and is outside the sold perimeter

Website: urbaser.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Madrid, Spain — street address not published in sources consulted for this edition · Access: Via urbaser.com and country subsidiaries; municipal work by public tender

Built as the urban-services arm of Spain's Dragados group, later part of ACS; sold to China Tianying in 2016 and to Platinum Equity in October 2021 (enterprise value about €3.5 billion). Platinum transformed the portfolio (20 add-ons, 13 divestitures, €1.6 billion invested) and agreed in February 2026 to sell Urbaser to Blackstone and EQT for about $6.6 billion (€5.6 billion); the sale completed in 2026, with Platinum retaining the Argentine business, which it had operated for about 30 years. The private-equity era's defining European waste asset: bought for €3.5 billion in 2021 and sold for $6.6 billion in 2026 on the strength of treatment capacity and a €15 billion contracted backlog Ownership is stated as of the completed 2026 sale; listings that still show Platinum Equity (or China Tianying) as owner are out of date.

Sources: Platinum Equity sale announcement, 13 Feb 2026, and completion announcement, 2026 (Blackstone/EQT, $6.6 billion; backlog >€15 billion; >50,000 employees; CEO Fernando Abril-Martorell); Urbaser 2024 filed accounts as reported at sale (€2.4 billion revenue); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

9. PREZERO (PREZERO STIFTUNG & CO. KG) — NECKARSULM, BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY

Founded 2018 (brand and operating group; origins as GreenCycle, 2009) · Integrated hauler

Leader: Not verified in sources consulted — PreZero does not publish a single group CEO name and title in the sources consulted for this edition; the Schwarz Group chief executive is Gerd Chrzanowski, but he is group CEO of the parent, not of PreZero, and is not presented here as PreZero's CEO Chair: Not published (foundation-owned group; no published divisional chair)

Leadership: President / COO: Not published CFO: Not published Other C-suite: Not published as a published divisional roster in sources consulted Senior leadership: Country organisations (PreZero Deutschland and sister companies in nine other markets) publish their own managing directors; no consolidated divisional executive roster was published in the sources consulted — a named gap of this entry

Business: Waste disposal and collection; sorting and recycling (including the German dual system for packaging); plastics recycling and recyclate production; energy recovery; environmental consulting and 'Road to Zero Waste' services for companies and sports clubs; battery recycling (entered via the RE.LION.BAT acquisition reported in the Schwarz 2025 fiscal reporting)

Customers: Municipal and commercial customers, retail and industry (including its own Schwarz Group stores as anchor volume), and producer-responsibility customers in the dual system — as published

Scale: Revenue €4.1 billion in the Schwarz Group's 2025 fiscal year, up 5.1% from €3.9 billion in fiscal 2024 (Schwarz Group fiscal reporting, 2025 and 2026 releases) — PreZero segment revenue as published by the parent

Facilities & fleet: More than 460 locations in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal and Spain (company profile reporting), plus US recycling interests from the 2018 RMG acquisition Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted; about 24,234 employees were reported for 2023/24 in the company profile consulted, with later segment reporting describing about 30,000 employees — both dated, not merged

Footprint: Europe (ten markets as published) and the United States (Europe / North America)

Structure: Private: Schwarz Group (foundation-owned retail group; Lidl, Kaufland, Schwarz Produktion, Schwarz Digits and PreZero)

Website: prezero-international.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Neckarsulm, Germany — street address not published in sources consulted · Access: Via prezero-international.com and national PreZero companies; no published general email

The environmental division of the Schwarz Group (Lidl and Kaufland). GreenCycle, founded in 2009 to handle the retail group's own waste, entered operating waste management in 2018 by acquiring Tönsmeier, then Germany's fifth-largest operator, relaunched it as PreZero in 2019, and expanded by acquiring SUEZ's recycling activities in several European markets and Ferrovial's waste business in Spain and Portugal. A retailer built a top-tier European waste group in seven years by buying incumbents — the only operator in this guide whose anchor customer is its own parent Leadership opacity is this entry's headline gap: the parent publishes segment revenue annually but no named divisional C-suite, and this guide prints that fact instead of a name it could not verify.

Sources: Schwarz Group fiscal 2024 release (€3.9 billion, +5.4%) and fiscal 2025 reporting (€4.1 billion, +5.1%) (gruppe.schwarz); PreZero company profile (locations, employees 2023/24); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

DIVERSIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL

10. VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT S.A. — AUBERVILLIERS, ÎLE-DE-FRANCE, FRANCE

Founded 1853 (Compagnie Générale des Eaux) · Diversified environmental

Leader: Estelle Brachlianoff, Chief Executive Officer (CEO since 1 July 2022; reappointed as a director and confirmed as CEO at the April 2026 general meeting) Chair: Antoine Frérot, Chairman of the Board of Directors (chairman since the 2022 separation of the chair and CEO roles; reappointed in April 2026, with succession planning for the chairmanship under way for 2026–27 as the company states)

Leadership: President / COO: No President/COO title is published at group level — not published; operations run through the Executive Committee and business-line chief executives published on veolia.com CFO: Group Chief Financial Officer title is held within the Deputy CEO, Finance function in the company's published executive structure; the individual name was not confirmed from an official source for this edition — not verified in sources consulted Other C-suite: Executive Committee members are published on veolia.com by function and geography; beyond the CEO and Chairman, this guide names only roles it verified — stated plainly Senior leadership: Business leadership includes Veolia North America and the hazardous-waste platform being enlarged by the agreed Clean Earth acquisition and the new Gum Springs, Arkansas hazardous-waste incinerator reported in the company's 2025 results

Business: WATER / WASTE SPLIT — STATED HONESTLY: Veolia reports three activities and does not publish a waste-only company. Waste: municipal and industrial collection, recycling, hazardous waste treatment (a stated GreenUp 'booster'), energy-from-waste and landfill. Water: municipal water and wastewater and Water Technologies. Energy: local energy services and efficiency. The waste line treated 64 million tonnes in 2025 (company figure); group revenue is not a waste figure

Customers: Municipalities and public authorities; industrial customers; 110 million people served with drinking water and 97 million with sanitation in 2025 (company figures — water customers, stated as such)

Scale: Consolidated revenue €44.4 billion in 2025 (€44.396 billion; Veolia full-year 2025 results) — a GROUP total across water, waste and energy, carried with that label and never as waste revenue; 215,000 employees; 64 million tonnes of waste treated and 45 million MWh of energy produced in 2025 (company figures)

Facilities & fleet: Operations on five continents across water, waste and energy sites; a single dated count of waste facilities by class (landfills, MRFs, transfer stations) was not published in the sources consulted — stated plainly Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated group figure in sources consulted

Footprint: Five continents; about 80% of revenue generated internationally / outside France per company reporting (2025) (Global)

Structure: Public company, Euronext Paris: VIE (CAC 40); widely held — employees are the largest shareholder bloc through the Sequoia employee shareholding plan (company statement, 2026)

Website: veolia.com · Contact: Phone: +33 1 85 57 84 76 (investor relations, as published in company releases) · Email: presse.groupe@veolia.com (group media relations, as published; investor relations: investor-relations@veolia.com) · Headquarters: Administrative headquarters: 30 rue Madeleine Vionnet, 93300 Aubervilliers, France; registered office: 21 rue La Boétie, 75008 Paris, France (both as published by the company) · Access: Via veolia.com and country subsidiaries; published media and investor emails above; municipal and industrial work by tender and contract

Founded in 1853 as Compagnie Générale des Eaux; became Vivendi Environnement and then Veolia Environnement in 2003. The modern group was made by the 2021–22 takeover of its historic rival SUEZ, cleared on remedies that created the new, smaller SUEZ (No. 11). Veolia now runs its GreenUp strategy across water, waste and energy, and in November 2025 agreed to buy Clean Earth, the US hazardous-waste business of Enviri, for $3.04 billion (see No. 17). The world's largest environmental services group and the only one in this guide operating water, waste and energy at global scale — which is precisely why its revenue must never be quoted as a waste number The Clean Earth acquisition (agreed 21 November 2025, $3.04 billion, expected to close mid-2026 in the announcement) is recorded as agreed in both this entry and Enviri's; its completion status is a named gap (see README).

Sources: Veolia full-year 2025 results and US release, Mar 2026 (veolia.com / Business Wire); Veolia combined general meeting release, 23 Apr 2026; Enviri–Veolia Clean Earth announcement, 21 Nov 2025; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

11. SUEZ S.A. (THE NEW SUEZ) — PUTEAUX (PARIS LA DÉFENSE), FRANCE

Founded 1858 (origins); 2022 (present group) · Diversified environmental

Leader: Xavier Girre, Chief Executive Officer (appointed by the Board on 6 June 2025, effective 1 July 2025; Pierre Pauliac and Yves Rannou served as interim co-CEOs in the first half of 2025 — listings naming Sabrina Soussan, CEO to 2025, or Pauliac as CEO are out of date) Chair: Thierry Déau, Chairman of the Board of Directors (also founder of Meridiam, as published by the company)

Leadership: President / COO: Pierre Pauliac, Executive Vice-President, International (previously Chief Operating Officer, Water, and interim co-CEO in H1 2025); Yves Rannou, Chief Operating Officer, Recycling & Recovery in the published organisation — titles as published on suez.com CFO: Not verified in sources consulted — a renewed Executive Committee was announced with the 2025 results; a current named Group CFO was not confirmed from an official source for this edition Other C-suite: Anne-Sophie Le Lay, Executive Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer (Group General Counsel), as published in the company's executive material Senior leadership: The Executive Committee was described by the company in April 2026 as 'renewed and more operational'; its full named roster is published on suez.com and was only partly verified for this edition — stated plainly

Business: WATER AND WASTE — STATED AS THE COMPANY PRESENTS THEM: Water (drinking water, wastewater, smart water, Degrémont engineering heritage) and Recycling & Recovery (collection, sorting and recycling, energy-from-waste, hazardous waste — a stated growth priority), supported by Engineering & Construction and Digital Solutions. SUEZ does not publish a waste-only revenue split in the results release consulted, and none is invented here

Customers: Local authorities and industrial groups in 40 countries; 67 million people provided with drinking water and 36 million with sanitation services (2025 key figures, as published)

Scale: Revenue €9.5 billion in 2025, up 3.6% (SUEZ full-year 2025 results, 9 April 2026); EBITDA €1.5 billion in 2025; 40,000 employees in 40 countries. This is the NEW SUEZ perimeter (water + waste), not the pre-2022 group

Facilities & fleet: More than 10,000 water and waste treatment plants built or operated worldwide in the company's published key figures (design-build-operate heritage figure, stated as the company states it); a dated count of collection-side facilities by class was not published in the sources consulted Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: 40 countries, anchored in France and the United Kingdom with international growth a stated strategic priority (Europe / Global)

Structure: Private consortium: Meridiam (40%), Global Infrastructure Partners (40%) and Caisse des Dépôts Group (20%) — the ownership set at the 2022 relaunch, as published

Website: suez.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published (press contact is routed through suez.com; the press mobile published in the company's CEO-appointment release is a media line, not a general contact, and is not carried as one) · Headquarters: Tour CB21, 16 place de l'Iris, 92040 Paris La Défense, Puteaux, France (head office, as published) · Access: Via suez.com and country sites (including suez.co.uk and SUEZ Asia); municipal work by tender

POST-VEOLIA STRUCTURE — FRAMED HONESTLY: The historic SUEZ (origins in the 1858 Suez Canal company and Lyonnaise des Eaux) was taken over by Veolia in 2021–22. To clear competition reviews, a consortium of Meridiam, Global Infrastructure Partners and Caisse des Dépôts bought the remedy perimeter in January 2022 and relaunched it as the new SUEZ — French water and waste activities of the old group plus selected international assets, about 40,000 employees. It is a private company, roughly a fifth of the old group's size, and references to pre-2022 SUEZ results do not describe it. A famous name on a new company: the only guide entry whose first duty is to tell the reader that the group behind the name is not the group they remember CEO verification matters here: Girre (from 1 July 2025) is the current CEO; the interim Pauliac/Rannou co-CEO arrangement of H1 2025 explains conflicting 2025 listings.

Sources: SUEZ full-year 2025 results release, 9 Apr 2026; SUEZ, 'Appointment of Xavier Girre as CEO', 6 Jun 2025 (suez.com); SUEZ group key figures 2025 (suez.com / SUEZ Asia); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

12. SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD (SEMBCORP ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT) — SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE

Founded 1998 (Sembcorp Industries); waste business divested 2025 · Diversified environmental

Leader: Wong Kim Yin, Group Chief Executive Officer of Sembcorp Industries (Group President and CEO since July 2020) — group CEO of the seller, not of the divested waste business; the waste business is led within TBS/SembEnviro, whose divisional CEO was not verified for this edition Chair: Not verified in sources consulted for Sembcorp's board chairmanship in sources consulted for this edition

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single group title; Sembcorp publishes divisional presidents by business (Gas, Renewables, Integrated Urban Solutions) CFO: Group CFO is published in Sembcorp's annual report; the name was not verified from an official source for this edition — not verified in sources consulted Other C-suite: Not published as a verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Sembcorp's management is published on sembcorp.com by its remaining businesses (energy and urban solutions); no waste-division leadership exists at Sembcorp after March 2025 — stated as the fact it is

Business: SEMBCORP TODAY: gas and related services, renewables, and Integrated Urban Solutions (water, wastewater and urban development). THE DIVESTED WASTE BUSINESS (now TBS/SembEnviro): municipal and industrial waste collection, recycling, medical waste and waste-to-energy services in Singapore — listed here as history and context, in the past tense the facts require

Customers: The divested business served Singapore municipal (National Environment Agency contracts), commercial and industrial customers; Sembcorp's remaining customers are energy and urban-solutions customers — categories as published

Scale: Sembcorp Industries group turnover S$5.8 billion in FY2025 (Sembcorp FY2025 results and Annual Report 2025) — an ENERGY AND URBAN total, expressly NOT waste revenue; the FY2025 report attributes part of the turnover decline to the absence of Sembcorp Environment after divestment. No waste-only revenue for the divested business was published in the sources consulted

Facilities & fleet: Waste facilities (Singapore collection, transfer, recycling and medical-waste assets) transferred to TBS/SembEnviro on 18 March 2025; counts by class were not published in the divestment announcements consulted — stated plainly Fleet: The former SembWaste collection fleet transferred with the business; its size is not published in the sources consulted

Footprint: The waste business: Singapore (with the buyer's regional ambitions in Indonesia and Southeast Asia as TBS states them). Sembcorp group: Singapore, Asia, the Middle East and the UK (energy and urban) (Asia-Pacific)

Structure: Public company, SGX: U96; Temasek Holdings is the largest shareholder (about half the shares in company reporting). The former waste business is owned by PT TBS Energi Utama Tbk (Indonesia Stock Exchange: TOBA) through SBT Investment 2

Website: sembcorp.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: 30 Hill Street, Singapore 179360 (Sembcorp Industries headquarters, as published) · Access: Sembcorp group via sembcorp.com; Singapore waste services are now reached through SembEnviro under TBS ownership (transition branding was permitted for a limited period)

SEMBCORP WASTE CONTEXT — STATED HONESTLY: Singapore's Sembcorp built one of Asia's best-known waste businesses — Sembcorp Environment (SembEnviro, the SembWaste collection brand), serving Singapore municipalities and industry, including medical waste through Sembcorp Enviro Services / Asia Medical Enviro lineage. That era is over: Sembcorp agreed in November 2024 to sell the whole of Sembcorp Environment and completed the sale on 18 March 2025 to SBT Investment 2 Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Indonesia's PT TBS Energi Utama Tbk. Sembcorp retains up to 18 months of transition support and limited trademark use. Sembcorp Industries today is an energy and urban-solutions group; it is included, as commissioned, as the context entry for Singapore waste — NOT as a current waste operator, and TBS/SembEnviro is the current owner of the business. This guide's second honesty test, after Stericycle: a famous waste name that left the industry in 2025, kept in the guide as context with its buyer named — not padded into a row pretending it still operates Scope note: readers looking for the current operator of the former SembWaste contracts should follow TBS Energi Utama / SembEnviro, not Sembcorp. No separate TBS row is carried in this edition — a named coverage gap (see README).

Sources: Sembcorp, 'Sembcorp Completes Sale of the Entire Shareholding in Sembcorp Environment Pte. Ltd. to SBT Investment 2 Pte. Ltd.', 18 Mar 2025; TBS Energi Utama completion release, 18 Mar 2025; Sembcorp FY2025 results and Annual Report 2025 (turnover S$5.8 billion; divestment effect stated); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

13. CHINA EVERBRIGHT ENVIRONMENT GROUP LIMITED — HONG KONG, CHINA (HONG KONG SAR; OPERATIONS CENTRED IN MAINLAND CHINA)

Founded 1997 (Hong Kong listing of the predecessor vehicle); environmental platform built from 2003 · Diversified environmental

Leader: Luan Zusheng, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (named as CEO in the company's 2025 annual-results announcement, March 2026) Chair: Not verified in sources consulted — the chairmanship was not confirmed from an official source for this edition and is not guessed

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single published title; the company publishes executive directors and business-division heads (Environmental Energy, Environmental Water, Greentech) in its annual report CFO: Not published as a verified named role for this edition Other C-suite: Not published as a verified roster for this edition — stated plainly Senior leadership: Divisional leadership for environmental energy, environmental water and greentech is published in the annual report; only the CEO was verified from the results announcement for this edition

Business: Environmental Energy — waste-to-energy plants, food and kitchen waste, leachate, sludge, medical waste and solid-waste projects, waste sorting and sanitation services; Environmental Water — water supply, wastewater and water-environment management; Greentech — hazardous and solid waste treatment, biomass, solar and environmental remediation and technology

Customers: Municipal and provincial governments in China under PPP/BOT concessions, and overseas project customers in its 16 markets — as published

Scale: Revenue HK$27.52 billion in FY2025 (year ended 31 December 2025; 2025 annual results, March 2026); EBITDA HK$10.27 billion; profit attributable to shareholders HK$3.93 billion. In 2025 the group processed nearly 66 million tonnes of household, hazardous, solid and agricultural/forestry waste and generated about 28.5 billion kWh of electricity (company figures)

Facilities & fleet: A concession portfolio of waste-to-energy and related projects across 24 provinces and regions of China and 16 overseas markets (2025 reporting); a single dated count of plants by class was not carried in the announcement consulted — stated plainly Fleet: Not applicable as a collection model — the group is primarily a plant owner-operator under concession, not a route-collection hauler; fleet count not published

Footprint: China nationwide (24 provinces/regions) and 16 overseas markets including Germany, Poland, Vietnam and Uzbekistan (company reporting, 2025) (Asia-Pacific)

Structure: Public company, HKEX: 257; controlling shareholder China Everbright Group (state-owned financial and industrial group under China's Ministry of Finance / Central Huijin lineage)

Website: cebenvironment.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong (registered/head office address as published by the company) · Access: Via cebenvironment.com; projects are won through government concession tenders in China and its overseas markets

The environmental arm of China Everbright Group, built from the early 2000s into China's largest waste-to-energy operator by taking municipal build-operate-transfer concessions province by province, then adding environmental water, remediation and equipment manufacturing. Listed in Hong Kong (stock code 257) and a constituent name in China's ecological-transition policy reporting. The purest large-scale expression of the Chinese concession model: the state builds the market, and the operator's asset is a portfolio of 25-to-30-year city contracts Chairman and CFO are this entry's named gaps; the CEO, results and operating volumes are verified from the company's own 2025 results announcement.

Sources: China Everbright Environment 2025 annual results announcement, Mar 2026 (HKEXnews / company release, via PR Newswire reporting); company profile reporting (16 overseas markets, 24 provinces); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

14. A2A S.P.A. — MILAN, ITALY

Founded 2008 (merger of AEM Milan and ASM Brescia); municipal origins from 1908 · Diversified environmental

Leader: Renato Mazzoncini, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director (confirmed in the role at the April 2026 shareholders' meeting, as reported) Chair: Not verified in sources consulted for this edition from an official source consulted

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single title; business units are led by published unit heads (including Circular Economy) CFO: Luca Moroni, Chief Financial Officer (named as CFO in the company's 2025 earnings reporting) Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Unit leadership including the Circular Economy (waste) business is published on gruppoa2a.it; only the CEO and CFO were verified for this edition — stated plainly

Business: GROUP LINES, WITH THE WASTE LINE NAMED: energy generation and trading; electricity and gas distribution and sales; district heating; integrated water cycle; and Circular Economy — waste collection (Aprica), recycling and material recovery, waste-to-energy, landfill and industrial waste services. Group revenue is an energy-led total and is not a waste figure

Customers: Municipalities of northern and central Italy for waste and water; energy customers nationwide (free-market electricity customer base grew 7% in the first nine months of 2025, company reporting) — categories as published

Scale: Adjusted revenues €14 billion in FY2025 (A2A results at 31 December 2025), adjusted EBITDA €2,243 million — GROUP totals, energy-led; the Circular Economy (waste) business is reported by the group as a business unit, and a waste-only revenue was not carried in the results release consulted — stated plainly rather than estimated

Facilities & fleet: Waste-to-energy plants including Acerra (Naples/Campania) and Brescia, material-recovery and treatment plants and collection operations across its territories; a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated group figure in sources consulted

Footprint: Italy — Lombardy heartland (Milan, Brescia, Bergamo), with waste operations extending to Campania (Acerra) and other regions (Europe)

Structure: Public company, Borsa Italiana: A2A; anchor shareholders the Municipality of Milan and the Municipality of Brescia (each about 25%, as published)

Website: gruppoa2a.it · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Corso di Porta Vittoria 4, 20122 Milan, Italy (registered office, as published) · Access: Via gruppoa2a.it; municipal waste services are delivered under city contracts in its territories

Italy's largest municipal multi-utility, created on 1 January 2008 by merging Milan's AEM and Brescia's ASM — both city-owned energy and waste houses with century-old roots (PitchBook dates the lineage to 1908). Its waste business, the Circular Economy area (A2A Ambiente and subsidiaries including the Aprica collection company), runs collection and some of Europe's largest waste-to-energy plants, including the Acerra plant in Campania and Brescia's waste-to-energy system integrated with district heating. The municipal-shareholder model at its most developed: two city halls are the anchor owners of a listed group whose waste plants heat the cities that own it Waste-only revenue and the chairmanship are this entry's named gaps; group figures are labelled as group figures throughout.

Sources: A2A results at 31 December 2025 (gruppoa2a.it, 2026: adjusted revenues €14 billion, adjusted EBITDA €2,243 million, CEO Renato Mazzoncini, CFO Luca Moroni); A2A shareholders' meeting reporting, Apr 2026; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

15. HERA S.P.A. (HERA GROUP — HERAMBIENTE) — BOLOGNA, ITALY

Founded 2002 · Diversified environmental

Leader: Orazio Iacono, Chief Executive Officer of the Hera Group (CEO in the group's 2025 and 2026 reporting) Chair: Not verified in sources consulted from an official source consulted for this edition (the group publishes an executive chairman office; the name is not carried unverified)

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single title; Herambiente and the other business units publish their own chief executives on the group sites CFO: Not published as a verified named role for this edition Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Business-unit leadership (Herambiente for waste, Hera Comm for energy sales, Inrete for distribution) is published by the group; only the group CEO was verified for this edition — stated plainly

Business: GROUP LINES, WITH WASTE NAMED: energy (gas and electricity networks and sales), integrated water cycle, public lighting and Waste Management — collection, waste-to-energy, industrial and hazardous waste treatment and remediation (Herambiente), and plastics recycling (Aliplast, including the R3GID rigid-plastics plant inaugurated at Modena). Group revenue is energy-led and is not a waste figure

Customers: Municipalities and residents of its Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Marche and Abruzzo territories; national industrial customers for Herambiente treatment and remediation — as published

Scale: Group revenue €12,812.2 million in FY2025 (Hera 2025 financial report), EBITDA €1,537 million — GROUP totals. WASTE AREA: revenues €1,357.5 million in the first nine months of 2025, EBITDA €274.9 million (group quarterly reporting) — the dated waste-area figure carried for the waste business

Facilities & fleet: Herambiente operates one of Italy's largest treatment networks — waste-to-energy plants, industrial-waste and remediation facilities and the Aliplast plastics plants; a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted Fleet: Collection fleet count not published as a single dated group figure in sources consulted

Footprint: Italy — Emilia-Romagna heartland, the Triveneto, Marche and Abruzzo for regulated services; Herambiente treatment serves industrial customers nationally (Europe)

Structure: Public company, Borsa Italiana: HER; municipal shareholders of Emilia-Romagna act under a shareholder pact alongside a broad public float (as published)

Website: eng.gruppohera.it · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Viale Carlo Berti Pichat 2/4, 40127 Bologna, Italy (registered office, as published) · Access: Via eng.gruppohera.it / gruppohera.it; local services through its territorial companies (Hera Luce, Herambiente, Marche Multiservizi and peers)

Created in 2002 by merging twelve municipal utilities of Emilia-Romagna around Bologna; Italy's first multi-utility of its kind and now one of its largest. Waste is run through Herambiente — collection in its home territories and one of Italy's leading treatment businesses (waste-to-energy, industrial waste, remediation, and plastics recycling through Aliplast), expanded in 2025 by acquiring Ambiente Energia (industrial liquid waste, Schio). The Bologna model: dozens of city halls pooled their utilities into one listed group, and its waste arm now sells treatment capacity to the whole of Italian industry The waste-area nine-month figure is used, dated, because the annual report consulted reports waste within the group presentation; no full-year waste revenue is estimated.

Sources: Hera Group 2025 financial report (revenue €12,812.2 million) and Q3 2025 reporting (waste area revenues €1,357.5 million, EBITDA €274.9 million) (eng.gruppohera.it); Hera CEO statements, 2025–26; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

HAZARDOUS & INDUSTRIAL

16. CLEAN HARBORS, INC. — NORWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES

Founded 1980 · Hazardous & industrial

Leader: Eric W. Gerstenberg, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Michael L. Battles, Co-Chief Executive Officer (co-CEOs in the company's 2025–26 reporting) Chair: Alan S. McKim, Executive Chairman (founder)

Leadership: President / COO: The co-CEO structure replaces a separate President/COO office at group level; segment presidents (Environmental Services; Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions) are published by the company CFO: Chief Financial Officer name not confirmed from an official source for this edition — not verified in sources consulted (the office is published in the company's proxy; it is not guessed here) Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Segment and functional leadership is published on cleanharbors.com; the co-CEOs and Executive Chairman are the verified top of the house for this edition

Business: Environmental Services — Technical Services (hazardous waste collection, transport, incineration, landfill, recycling and treatment), Safety-Kleen Environmental Services (small-generator hazardous and parts-cleaning services), Field Services (emergency response and remediation projects) and PFAS treatment and destruction; Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions — used-oil collection and re-refining into base oils and lubricants

Customers: Industrial and chemical manufacturers, refineries, government and defence (including PFAS work for the US Department of Defense reported by the company), transport, healthcare and small hazardous-waste generators — categories as published

Scale: Revenues US$6.03 billion in 2025, up 2% on US$5.89 billion in 2024 — the first year above US$6 billion (Clean Harbors full-year 2025 results, 18 February 2026); adjusted EBITDA US$1.17 billion in 2025

Facilities & fleet: The largest permitted hazardous-waste disposal network in North America — incinerators (including Kimball, Nebraska, ramped up in 2025–26), hazardous landfills, treatment and transfer facilities and re-refineries; a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted Fleet: Fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: United States and Canada, nationwide; emergency-response and field services across North America (North America)

Structure: Public company, NYSE: CLH; widely held; founder Alan S. McKim remains the largest individual shareholder and Executive Chairman (company reporting)

Website: cleanharbors.com · Contact: Phone: 800.282.0058 (as published on company letterhead in its results releases) · Email: Not published · Headquarters: 42 Longwater Drive, P.O. Box 9149, Norwell, MA 02061-9149, United States (as published on company letterhead) · Access: Via cleanharbors.com and its 24/7 emergency-response line published on the site; published switchboard number above

Founded in 1980 by Alan S. McKim in Massachusetts with a single tank-cleaning crew; built North America's largest hazardous-waste disposal network by acquisition — Safety-Kleen (2012) above all — and added the Kimball, Nebraska incinerator capacity and a growing PFAS destruction practice. Since 2023 it has been led by co-chief executives from inside the company. America's hazardous-waste utility: if it burns, buries or re-refines dangerous waste at scale in North America, Clean Harbors is the default counterparty — and the PFAS era is built for it CFO naming is this entry's named gap; the co-CEO structure and the founder's continuing executive chairmanship are verified from the company's own results reporting.

Sources: Clean Harbors fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, 18 Feb 2026 (Business Wire / cleanharbors.com: revenues $6.03 billion; co-CEOs Gerstenberg and Battles; HQ address and phone as published); Waste Dive CEO-pay survey, 2026; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

17. ENVIRI CORPORATION (CLEAN EARTH) — PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES

Founded 1853 (Harsco origins); 2023 (renamed Enviri) · Hazardous & industrial

Leader: F. Nicholas Grasberger III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer (as published; Russell Hochman is named in the November 2025 announcement to become CEO of New Enviri at closing) Chair: F. Nicholas Grasberger III, Chairman (combined with President and CEO, as published)

Leadership: President / COO: F. Nicholas Grasberger III also holds the President title; a separate group COO title was not published in the sources consulted CFO: Not published as a verified named role for this edition Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Clean Earth, Harsco Environmental and Rail segment presidents are published by the company; Russell Hochman's designation as New Enviri CEO-elect is the verified succession fact for this entry

Business: Clean Earth — hazardous waste treatment and disposal, contaminated soil and dredged material treatment, and waste brokerage across a US facility network; Harsco Environmental — on-site services and material processing for steel and metals producers (not waste collection; included because it is half of the post-sale company); Rail — track maintenance equipment and contracting (non-waste, named as such)

Customers: Industrial, chemical, pharmaceutical, retail and government customers for Clean Earth; steelmakers for Harsco Environmental — as published

Scale: Revenue US$2.24 billion in 2025 (company revenue as reported in the Waste Dive 2026 CEO-compensation survey of 2025 filings) — a GROUP total including Rail and steel services, not a waste-only figure; the Clean Earth sale price of $3.04 billion (November 2025) is the best published marker of the waste business's weight and is stated as a transaction price, not revenue

Facilities & fleet: Clean Earth operates a national US network of permitted treatment facilities (including soil treatment plants on the East and Gulf coasts and in the Midwest); a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted Fleet: Fleet count not published — Clean Earth is predominantly a treatment-network, not route-collection, business

Footprint: United States for Clean Earth; Harsco Environmental serves steel producers in more than 30 countries (company reporting) (North America / Global)

Structure: Public company, NYSE: NVRI — as constituted at the November 2025 announcement; on completion of the Clean Earth sale the listed remainder becomes New Enviri (Harsco Environmental and Rail)

Website: enviri.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Two Logan Square, 100 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, United States (as published by the company) · Access: Via enviri.com and cleanearth.com; industrial services by contract

The former Harsco Corporation (origins in 1850s Pennsylvania rail and steel services), renamed Enviri in 2023 around three businesses: Clean Earth (hazardous and contaminated-materials treatment, built by acquisitions including the 2019 ESOL and 2020 Stericycle Environmental Solutions purchases — a Stericycle lineage that sits in this entry, not in WM's), Harsco Environmental (steel-mill services) and Rail. On 21 November 2025 Enviri agreed to sell Clean Earth to Veolia for $3.04 billion in cash and to spin off Harsco Environmental and Rail as 'New Enviri' to shareholders at closing, expected mid-2026 in the announcement. A waste company in the act of leaving its own guide entry: by the next edition, Clean Earth should appear inside Veolia's entry and Enviri's remainder will be a steel-services and rail company TRANSACTION STATUS GAP: the November 2025 announcement expected closing in mid-2026 subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals; completion had not been confirmed in the sources consulted for this October 2026 edition, so both companies are presented as constituted in that announcement and the point is flagged in the README.

Sources: Enviri announcement, 'Sale of Clean Earth to Veolia for $3.04 Billion and Taxable Spin-Off of Harsco Environmental and Rail', 21 Nov 2025 (Globe Newswire / enviri.com); Waste Dive CEO-pay survey, 2026 (2025 revenue $2.24 billion; Grasberger titles); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

18. SÉCHÉ ENVIRONNEMENT S.A. — CHANGÉ, MAYENNE, FRANCE

Founded 1985 · Hazardous & industrial

Leader: Maxime Séché, Chief Executive Officer (son of the founder; CEO in the company's 2025 results reporting) Chair: Joël Séché, Chairman of the Board of Directors (founder; the 2025 results were approved at board meetings under his chairmanship, as stated in the releases)

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single published title; operations are led by France and international business heads published by the group CFO: Not published as a verified named role for this edition Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Group executive committee membership is published on groupe-seche.com; only the Chairman and CEO were verified from the results releases for this edition — stated plainly

Business: Hazardous waste treatment (incineration, physico-chemical treatment, storage) for complex industrial streams; non-hazardous waste treatment and energy recovery (including the Nantes-Alcea energy-from-waste concession renewed for 20 years in company reporting); decontamination and remediation; environmental emergency response (Séché Urgences Interventions); industrial services and biodiversity/consulting activities

Customers: Industrial clients (chemicals, refining, manufacturing) and local authorities — as published; France supplied about 65% of revenue in early-2025 reporting, with international growth the strategy

Scale: Contributed revenue €1,152 million in 2025, up 3.7% on 2024 (Séché Environnement 2025 consolidated results, 9 March 2026); EBITDA €225 million in 2025 (down on circular-economy weakness in France, as the company states); 2026 acquisitions (Groupe Flamme, La Filippa, Hidronor) are recorded in the release as planned/agreed, in those words

Facilities & fleet: More than 120 sites worldwide, including about 50 industrial sites in France (company reporting, 2025) Fleet: Fleet count not published — predominantly a treatment-site, not route-collection, operator

Footprint: France (about two-thirds of revenue) and operations in nine strategic countries across Europe, Latin America and Asia (Singapore) in company reporting (Europe / Global)

Structure: Public company, Euronext Paris: SCHP; Séché family holding is the principal shareholder bloc (as published in the universal registration document)

Website: groupe-seche.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Les Hêtres, Sainte-Croix, 53940 Changé, France (head office, as published by the company) · Access: Via groupe-seche.com; industrial services by contract; emergency response via Séché Urgences Interventions as published on the site

Founded in 1985 near Laval, France, by Joël Séché; grew from hazardous-waste storage into France's specialist for complex and hazardous waste, then internationalised — Latin America (Peru, Chile, including the Hidronor acquisition agreed in 2025–26 reporting), Spain, and Singapore, where buying ECO in July 2024 gave it a leading hazardous-waste position. Listed in Paris; the Séché family remains the anchor shareholder. France's hazardous-waste champion, still family-chaired in its second generation — and the only operator in this guide buying hazardous platforms on three continents at once Acquisitions announced for 2026 (Flamme, La Filippa, Hidronor) are described as planned/agreed, following the company's own wording at results day, not as completed.

Sources: Séché Environnement 2025 consolidated results, 9 Mar 2026, and H1 2025 results, 10 Sep 2025 (Euronext / groupe-seche.com: contributed revenue €1,152m; Maxime Séché, CEO; Joël Séché, Chairman); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

19. INDAVER N.V. — MECHELEN, BELGIUM

Founded 1985 · Hazardous & industrial

Leader: Karl Huts, Chief Executive Officer (succeeded Paul De Bruycker on 1 January 2025, after serving as CFO from 2019; announced 23 December 2024) Chair: Paul De Bruycker, Chairman of the Board of Directors (former CEO, 2011–2024, who moved to the chairmanship on the succession, as announced)

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single published title CFO: Hilde Vangilbergen, Chief Financial Officer (appointed on the 2025 succession, as announced by the company) Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition; treatment and country directors are published in company releases (e.g., Stefan Opdenakker, Director Treatment, Industrial Waste Services BeNeFra) Senior leadership: Country and treatment leadership is published release by release on indaver.com; the CEO, Chairman and CFO successions of January 2025 are the verified top of the house

Business: Hazardous and industrial waste treatment (high-temperature incineration, physico-chemical treatment); municipal waste treatment and energy recovery; materials recovery including Plastics2Chemicals chemical recycling of end-of-life plastics; total waste management contracts for industrial sites

Customers: Chemical and pharmaceutical industry (the Antwerp cluster above all), other industrial producers, and municipalities — as published

Scale: Revenue €945 million in 2024, with more than 2,300 employees and 5.6 million tonnes of waste processed (Indaver company reporting published in its 2025 releases); EBITDA €161 million in the same reporting. No 2025 revenue was published in the sources consulted — the dated 2024 figure is carried

Facilities & fleet: 16 major installations and more than 30 locations in eight European countries (company reporting); flagship treatment and the Plastics2Chemicals plant at Antwerp Fleet: Fleet count not published — a treatment-network operator; waste movements are largely contracted haulage

Footprint: Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and the United Kingdom (company reporting) (Europe)

Structure: Private: Katoen Natie Group (sole shareholder, as stated in the company's own reporting)

Website: indaver.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: press@indaver.com (press contact, as published in company releases) · Headquarters: Dijle 17a, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium (head office, as published by the company) · Access: Via indaver.com; published press email above; industrial contracts negotiated directly

Founded in Flanders in 1985 to give Flemish industry a safe route for hazardous waste; owned since the 1990s–2010s consolidations by Katoen Natie, the Antwerp logistics group of Ferdinand Huts, its sole shareholder. Built treatment flagships in Antwerp (including the Plastics2Chemicals chemical-recycling plant, whose first recycled raw materials left the site in the company's 2025 reporting) and networks in Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. A port-cluster specialist: it treats the Antwerp chemical industry's most difficult streams a few kilometres from where they arise, and is now turning plastic waste back into chemical feedstock on the same ground The January 2025 succession (Huts to CEO, De Bruycker to Chairman, Vangilbergen to CFO) is fully documented in the company's announcement and EUWID reporting; older listings naming De Bruycker as CEO are out of date.

Sources: Indaver Plastics2Chemicals release (indaver.com: 2024 revenue €945 million, 5.6 million tonnes, >2,300 employees, press@indaver.com); EUWID Recycling, 'Indaver CEO Paul De Bruycker makes way for successor Karl Huts', Jan 2025; Indaver strategy presentation, Dec 2025; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

20. REWORLD HOLDING CORPORATION (FORMERLY COVANTA) — FLORHAM PARK, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES

Founded Waste-to-energy platform built from the 1980s (Covanta lineage); renamed Reworld on 16 April 2024 · Hazardous & industrial

Leader: Azeez Mohammed, President and Chief Executive Officer (appointed on the EQT acquisition in 2021 and CEO in the 2024 Reworld relaunch releases) Chair: Not published (private company; board chairmanship not published in sources consulted)

Leadership: President / COO: Azeez Mohammed holds the President title jointly with CEO CFO: Brendan Ferretti, Chief Financial Officer (title as published in company leadership material consulted; not reconfirmed from a 2026 official release — flagged accordingly) Other C-suite: Tequila Smith, Chief Sustainability Officer; Gagan Sood, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer; Ginny Angilello, Chief Human Resources Officer; Tom Kenyon, General Counsel and Secretary (titles as published in company leadership material) Senior leadership: Regional presidents for the East, Midwest and South regions are published by the company (Adel Omrani, Selma Kivran and Amir Hafzalla in the material consulted)

Business: Energy-from-waste (Thermomechanical Treatment Facilities) for municipalities; industrial and commercial waste solutions — profiled (engineered) waste, hazardous and non-hazardous treatment, wastewater treatment, on-site services and ReDirect360 zero-waste-to-landfill programmes; metals recovery from ash; secure destruction services

Customers: Municipalities under long-term waste-to-energy service agreements, and industrial and commercial generators of profiled and hazardous waste — as published

Scale: Revenue not published since the 2021 take-private — Reworld is a private company and publishes no revenue figure; the last public Covanta figures (about US$1.9 billion in 2020) are NOT carried as current, and no estimate is substituted. Scale markers published by the company are operational (facilities and tonnages in its relaunch material), not financial

Facilities & fleet: A North American network of waste-to-energy facilities and material-processing and transfer facilities (the Covanta fleet of Thermomechanical Treatment Facilities, about 40 facilities in the company's historical reporting — carried as a historical marker, dated as such, not as a 2026 count) Fleet: Fleet count not published — predominantly a facility operator receiving waste delivered by municipal and hauler fleets

Footprint: United States and Canada (waste-to-energy and industrial services), organised in East, Midwest and South regions (North America)

Structure: Private: EQT Infrastructure (EQT Infrastructure V fund), owner since the 2021 take-private

Website: reworldwaste.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Florham Park, New Jersey, United States — street address not published in sources consulted (the company previously headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey) · Access: Via reworldwaste.com; municipal and industrial services by long-term contract

The company built as Covanta — for decades the defining name in US waste-to-energy, operating municipal incinerators that sell electricity — was taken private by EQT Infrastructure in 2021 in a $5.3 billion acquisition, and relaunched on 16 April 2024 as Reworld, widening from waste-to-energy into industrial waste solutions, treatment and zero-waste-to-landfill services after more than $1 billion of investment and acquisitions in the EQT era. America's waste-to-energy incumbent reinventing itself as an industrial-waste solutions company — under an owner (EQT) that also appears in this guide as Urbaser's new co-owner The absence of a revenue figure is this entry's headline named gap, and it is deliberate: a private company's scale is described operationally, not estimated financially.

Sources: Reworld, 'Covanta Celebrates its Transformation into Reworld', 16 Apr 2024 (reworldwaste.com: Azeez Mohammed, President and CEO); Covanta–EQT acquisition release, 2021 ($5.3 billion); company leadership material; LIKE survey, Oct 2026

21. TRADEBE (TRADEBE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES) — SANT JOAN DESPÍ, BARCELONA, SPAIN

Founded 1984 (Environmental Services business start year in the group's own sustainability reporting) · Hazardous & industrial

Leader: Victor Creixell, Chief Executive Officer of Environmental Services (named as CEO of Environmental Services in the group's 2026 releases) Chair: Not published as a published office for this edition

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single published title CFO: Not published as a verified named role for this edition Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Site and country leadership is published in the group's site directory on tradebe.com (named site contacts with published emails and phones); only the Environmental Services CEO was verified at group level

Business: Environmental Services — hazardous and industrial waste collection, transport, treatment, recycling and energy recovery; MARPOL port waste; industrial cleaning and tank services; solar-panel recycling (from 2026). GROUP CONTEXT: Life Sciences and Health & Nutrition are chemical/food-ingredient businesses, not waste, and are excluded from the environmental figures below

Customers: Industrial customers (chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, refining), ports and maritime customers, and public bodies — as published

Scale: Group revenue €778 million in 2023, of which Environmental Services €671 million (86%), with 2,831 employees group-wide and 2,369 in Environmental Services (Tradebe Sustainability Report 2023 data, published 2024–25) — the dated figures carried; no consolidated 2024–25 group revenue was published in the sources consulted, and none is estimated

Facilities & fleet: 74 permitted facilities at December 2023 (group sustainability reporting), across Continental Europe (mainly Spain, France, Italy, Germany), the UK and North America Fleet: Fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: Spain (home market), France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States (Europe / North America)

Structure: Private, family-controlled (Creixell family group), Barcelona — ownership as published by the group

Website: tradebe.com · Contact: Phone: +34 932 05 81 00 (head-office site listing, as published on tradebe.com) · Email: info@tradebe.com (as published on tradebe.com site listings) · Headquarters: Avinguda de Barcelona 109, 08970 Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, Spain (head-office listing, as published on tradebe.com) · Access: Via tradebe.com; published head-office email and phone above; site-level contacts are published in the group's directory

A Barcelona family group built from industrial-waste treatment in Spain into an environmental services business across Spain, France, the UK, Germany, Italy and the United States, alongside two non-waste divisions the reader must know about to read its accounts honestly: Tradebe Life Sciences (purification and flavours & fragrances) and Tradebe Health & Nutrition. In 2026 it added solar-panel recycling (Greening Relive, Granada, with Greening Group) to the environmental line. The Mediterranean's industrial-waste house — family-owned, treatment-led, and unusual in publishing its waste and non-waste divisions side by side, which this entry preserves All Tradebe figures are dated 2023, from the group's own sustainability reporting; the staleness is named here and in the README rather than disguised.

Sources: Tradebe Sustainability Report (2023 data: group revenue €778m, Environmental Services €671m, 74 permitted facilities, 2,831 employees); Tradebe–Greening Group release, 2026 (Victor Creixell, CEO of Environmental Services); tradebe.com site listings (info@tradebe.com, +34 932 05 81 00); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

REGIONAL MAJOR

22. CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC. — RUTLAND, VERMONT, UNITED STATES

Founded 1975 · Regional major

Leader: Edmond 'Ned' R. Coletta, Chief Executive Officer (from 1 January 2026; previously President — John W. Casella stepped down as CEO in January 2026 and remains Executive Chairman, as the company announced) Chair: John W. Casella, Executive Chairman of the Board (from January 2026; Chairman and CEO until the succession)

Leadership: President / COO: Ned Coletta held the President title until his elevation to CEO; the successor President/COO arrangement was not confirmed from an official source for this edition — not verified in sources consulted CFO: Brad Helgeson, Chief Financial Officer (named as CFO in the company's 2025 earnings reporting) Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Regional and segment leadership (Solid Waste; Resource Solutions, its national-accounts and recycling-services arm) is published on casella.com

Business: Collection (residential, commercial, industrial); recycling and MRFs; landfill disposal; transfer stations; organics and food-waste services; Resource Solutions — national accounts, on-site and zero-waste services for large customers

Customers: Municipal, residential and commercial customers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, and national-account industrial and institutional customers through Resource Solutions — as published

Scale: Revenue about US$1.84 billion in FY2025 (year ended 31 December 2025; company 2025 reporting and guidance record — 'about' because the final full-year release consulted was its Q3 2025 reporting and raised guidance of $1.830–1.840 billion)

Facilities & fleet: Operations across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic — collection routes, MRFs, transfer stations and landfills; a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted Fleet: Fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: United States Northeast (New England and New York heartland) and the Mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia expansion, including the Mountain State Waste acquisition agreed in 2025) (North America)

Structure: Public company, NASDAQ: CWST; widely held; the Casella family remains influential shareholders (company filings)

Website: casella.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: 25 Greens Hill Lane, Rutland, VT 05701, United States (as published by the company) · Access: Via casella.com and local operating divisions; investor relations via the site

Founded in Rutland, Vermont, in 1975 by Doug Casella with a single truck; built by his sons into the US Northeast's integrated regional — collection, recycling (an early single-stream pioneer) and landfills — then pushed south in 2023–24 by acquiring the Mid-Atlantic businesses (including the GFL and Waste Industries assets in that region) that roughly doubled its footprint. The last independent regional of the US Northeast, now testing whether a Vermont culture can run a Mid-Atlantic empire — under a rare non-family CEO succession completed in January 2026 Succession is the verified headline: Coletta (CEO) and John Casella (Executive Chairman) from January 2026. Listings still showing John Casella as CEO are pre-2026.

Sources: Casella Q3 2025 results and earnings-call record, Oct 2025 (succession confirmed on the call; revenue guidance $1.830–1.840 billion for 2025; CFO Brad Helgeson); Waste Dive CEO-pay survey, 2026 ('John Casella stepped down as CEO in January 2026, remaining executive chairman'; 2025 revenue $1.84 billion); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

23. RENEWI PLC / RENEWI GROUP — MILTON KEYNES (REGISTERED) / EINDHOVEN (OPERATIONAL HEARTLAND), UNITED KINGDOM / NETHERLANDS

Founded 2017 (merger of Shanks Group and Van Gansewinkel); Shanks origins 1888 · Regional major

Leader: Otto de Bont, Chief Executive Officer (CEO through the UK Municipal sale and the take-private in the company's published reporting; a post-take-private change of CEO was not published in the sources consulted) Chair: Not verified in sources consulted for the post-take-private board in sources consulted

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single published title CFO: Annemieke den Otter, Chief Financial Officer (named as CFO alongside the CEO in the company's published results documents of 2024) Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Divisional leadership — Commercial Waste, Mineralz & Water, Specialities (Maltha glass, Coolrec plastics and electronics) — is published by the company

Business: Commercial waste collection and recycling (Benelux); Mineralz & Water — contaminated soil, water and mineral-waste processing; Specialities — Maltha (glass recycling), Coolrec (plastics and WEEE), and other recovery activities. The UK Municipal business (PPPs and energy-from-waste-linked contracts) was sold to Biffa in October 2024 and is NOT in the current perimeter

Customers: Commercial and industrial customers and municipalities in the Benelux — as published; UK municipal customers transferred to Biffa with the 2024 sale

Scale: Revenue €1.69 billion in FY2023/24 (year ended 31 March 2024; Renewi annual results, May 2024), and revenue from continuing operations of €1,307.8 million in the first nine months of FY2024/25 (Q3 trading update, February 2025) — the dated figures carried; no full-year post-take-private revenue was published in the sources consulted

Facilities & fleet: Sorting, recycling and processing sites across the Netherlands and Belgium (including Maltha and Coolrec plants); a single dated count by class was not published in the sources consulted Fleet: Fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: The Benelux (Netherlands and Belgium, with French activities) after the 2024 UK exit (Europe)

Structure: Private since 2025: consortium of Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) (take-private completed and listings cancelled in 2025, as announced)

Website: renewi.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (registered office of the former listed parent) — operational headquarters functions in Eindhoven, Netherlands; a single current published head-office street address was not confirmed for this edition · Access: Via renewi.com and its Benelux operating companies; commercial service contracted locally

Created in 2017 by merging Britain's Shanks Group (origins 1888) with the Netherlands' Van Gansewinkel — a self-described 'waste-to-product' pure play in the Benelux. Two transactions define its current shape: on 10 October 2024 it completed the sale of its UK Municipal business (five long local-authority contracts) to Biffa (No. 5) and exited the UK operating market; and in 2025 it was taken private by a Macquarie Asset Management / British Columbia Investment Management consortium and delisted from London and Amsterdam — post-take-private financial disclosure is correspondingly thinner, which this entry states rather than fills. Europe's recycling pure play: no landfill empire, no collection giant — a portfolio of sorting and waste-to-product plants, now privately owned and free of the UK contracts that dragged its margins Renewi and Biffa are paired entries: the UK Municipal contracts left Renewi on 10 October 2024 and sit in Biffa's entry. CEO continuity after the take-private is flagged as not reconfirmed, not assumed.

Sources: Renewi FY2023/24 annual results, May 2024 (revenue €1.69 billion; UK Municipal sale to Biffa announced); Renewi Q3 FY25 trading update, 13 Feb 2025 (continuing revenue €1,307.8m; UK Municipal completion 10 Oct 2024); Renewi results documents (Otto de Bont, CEO; Annemieke den Otter, CFO); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

24. PAPREC GROUP — PARIS, FRANCE

Founded 1994 · Regional major

Leader: Sébastien Petithuguenin, Chief Executive Officer (Directeur général) Chair: Mathieu Petithuguenin, Chairman (Président) — chairmanship as published in the group's current leadership material; founder Jean-Luc Petithuguenin remains the group's founding president figure in its communications, and the two published attributions are recorded here together rather than silently merged

Leadership: President / COO: Sébastien Petithuguenin combines the chief-executive role; no separate COO title is published at group level CFO: Not published as a verified named role for this edition Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Business and regional leadership (Paprec Recyclage, Paprec Energies for energy recovery, international subsidiaries in Switzerland and Spain) is published on paprec.com

Business: Recycling (paper, plastics, metals, batteries, WEEE — France's No. 1 recycler by the group's own description); municipal and industrial waste collection (Coved lineage); energy recovery from waste (TIRU lineage, Paprec Energies); sorting centres for household recyclables; confidential destruction and office-waste services (La Corbeille Bleue)

Customers: More than 70,000 customers — municipalities and industrial and commercial customers (company figure in its published material)

Scale: Revenue €3.5 billion in 2025, with 16,000 employees (company figures as reported in 2025–26 profiles); the group processes about 16 million tonnes of waste a year and produces about 3 TWh of low-carbon energy (company figures)

Facilities & fleet: About 300–350 collection and processing sites (300 sites in the group's 2023 reporting; 350 sites in later company material — both dated, not merged), including 29 waste-to-energy plants (company material) Fleet: Fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: Ten countries in Europe and Asia in group reporting — France (home market), Spain (its second market, built around Barcelona/CLD), Switzerland and others, with a UAE presence reported (Europe)

Structure: Private: Petithuguenin family (majority, through the family holding with Arkéa), with institutional co-shareholders Vauban Infrastructure Partners, Crédit Agricole group, Bpifrance and BNP Paribas (shareholding as published by the group)

Website: paprec.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: Not published · Headquarters: 7 rue du Docteur Lancereaux, 75008 Paris, France (head office, as published by the group) · Access: Via paprec.com and national subsidiaries (Paprec Switzerland; Grupo Paprec in Spain); municipal work by tender

Founded in Paris in 1994 by Jean-Luc Petithuguenin, who bought a small paper-recycling business and compounded it through more than a hundred acquisitions (Coved for municipal collection in 2017, TIRU for energy-from-waste in 2022, CLD in Barcelona in 2023) into France's leading recycling company and its No. 3 in waste and energy recovery — still family-majority-owned, now led by the founder's sons. France's recycling champion built by one family in thirty years — and the bridge between the municipal-collection old guard and the materials-first new model Chairmanship wording follows the group's current published leadership (Mathieu Petithuguenin as chairman, Sébastien as CEO); revenue is a company-reported figure, not an audited filing figure, and is labelled as such.

Sources: Paprec group material and profiles, 2025–26 (paprec.com: €3.5 billion revenue 2025, 16,000 employees, ~300–350 sites, 29 energy-recovery plants, >70,000 customers; Sébastien Petithuguenin, CEO; Mathieu Petithuguenin, chairman); Paprec financing release (family majority; Vauban, Crédit Agricole, Bpifrance, BNP Paribas shareholders); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

25. DERICHEBOURG S.A. — PARIS, FRANCE

Founded 1956 · Regional major

Leader: Abderrahmane El Aoufir, Chief Executive Officer of the Derichebourg Group (CEO in the group's FY2024/25 results reporting) Chair: Daniel Derichebourg, Chairman (reaffirmed as Chairman at the February 2026 general meeting, as reported)

Leadership: President / COO: Not published as a single published title CFO: Not published as a verified named role for this edition Other C-suite: Not published as a full verified roster for this edition Senior leadership: Divisional leadership for Recycling (Environnement) and Public Sector Services is published by the group; only the Chairman and CEO were verified for this edition

Business: Recycling — ferrous scrap (4,080 thousand tonnes sold in FY2024/25) and non-ferrous metals (635 thousand tonnes), WEEE and industrial waste services, end-of-life vehicles; Public Sector Services — household waste collection, urban cleaning and related municipal services. (The Elior catering stake is an investment, not a waste business, and is excluded from the operating lines.)

Customers: Steelmakers and metal producers (recycling off-take), industrial customers, and municipalities for public-sector services — as published

Scale: Revenue €3,337.1 million in FY2024/25 (financial year ended 30 September 2025), down 7.5% on FY2023/24 — of which Recycling €3,151.6 million and Public Sector Services €184.4 million (Derichebourg full-year results, December 2025); 5,559 employees in the same reporting

Facilities & fleet: More than 280 sites worldwide (group reporting in its 2025 management interviews and results material) Fleet: Fleet count not published as a single dated figure in sources consulted

Footprint: 13 countries, anchored in France with recycling operations across Europe and North America (company reporting) (Europe)

Structure: Public company, Euronext Paris: DBG; the Derichebourg family holding (CFER) is the controlling shareholder (as published)

Website: derichebourg.com · Contact: Phone: Not published · Email: communication@derichebourg.com (investor relations and communication, as published in company releases) · Headquarters: 119 avenue du Général Michel Bizot, 75012 Paris, France (head office, as published by the group) · Access: Via derichebourg.com; published investor-relations email above; municipal services by tender

Founded in 1956 by the merger of four family scrap businesses; built by the Derichebourg family into a major international metal-recycling operator (the former Guy Dauphin Environnement lineage) with a second business in public-sector services — household collection and urban services for French cities. It holds a significant stake in the caterer Elior Group, whose contribution materially affects its results and is named in its reporting. In 2026 it was finalising the acquisition of Scholz Recycling (company reporting, May 2026), recorded here as in progress, not completed. A metals recycler first and a hauler second: four-fifths of its story is the price of scrap steel and copper, which is why its revenue fell in a year its volumes nearly held Metal-price cyclicality is stated in the scale line rather than hidden: FY2024/25 revenue fell 7.5% on prices, with ferrous volumes down 7.7%. The Scholz Recycling acquisition was in finalisation in May 2026 reporting and is not treated as completed.

Sources: Derichebourg FY2024/25 full-year results, Dec 2025 (revenue €3,337.1m; Recycling €3,151.6m; Public Sector Services €184.4m; CEO Abderrahmane El Aoufir; communication@derichebourg.com); Derichebourg general-meeting reporting, Feb 2026 (Daniel Derichebourg, Chairman); LIKE survey, Oct 2026

NAMED GAPS

Stericycle is not a row. WM completed its acquisition of Stericycle on 4 November 2024 (about $7.2 billion enterprise value); Stericycle no longer exists independently, and its regulated medical waste and secure information destruction businesses are reported by WM as WM Healthcare Solutions. It is treated inside the WM entry, and Advanced Disposal and US Ecology are likewise inside the WM and Republic entries that own them, and Safety-Kleen inside Clean Harbors.

Sembcorp is a context entry, not a current operator. Sembcorp completed the sale of Sembcorp Environment (the SembWaste business) to PT TBS Energi Utama Tbk on 18 March 2025. The current operator is TBS/SembEnviro; no separate TBS row is carried in this edition — a coverage gap, named as such.

Group revenue is never waste revenue. Veolia (€44.4 billion, 2025), SUEZ (€9.5 billion, 2025, water and waste combined), FCC Group (€9,700 million, 2025), A2A (€14 billion adjusted, 2025), Hera (€12,812 million, 2025), Enviri ($2.24 billion, 2025) and Tradebe (€778 million, 2023) all report multi-business totals. Each entry carries the group total with that label and, where the company publishes one, the waste-division figure (FCC Environment €4,740 million in 2025; Hera waste area €1,357.5 million for the first nine months of 2025; Tradebe Environmental Services €671 million in 2023). Where no waste-only figure is published, none is estimated.

Reworld publishes no revenue. Taken private by EQT in 2021 (as Covanta), it discloses no financial figure; its last public revenue (about $1.9 billion in 2020) is not carried as current, and its scale is described operationally.

Two leadership structures defeat the CEO field, and the guide prints the structure instead of a name: REMONDIS publishes no single group CEO title (it is led by its management board under RETHMANN board chairman Ludger Rethmann), and PreZero publishes no named divisional chief executive in the sources consulted — its parent, the Schwarz Group, publishes segment revenue but no divisional C-suite. PreZero is therefore the one company of the 25 without a verified named CEO in this edition.

The Clean Earth transaction was unconfirmed as completed at press time. Enviri's sale of Clean Earth to Veolia ($3.04 billion, announced 21 November 2025, expected to close mid-2026) had not been confirmed as completed in the sources consulted for this edition; both entries present the companies as constituted in the announcement, and Russell Hochman is recorded as CEO-elect of the spun-off New Enviri, not as an incumbent.

Private ownership thins disclosure. Renewi (taken private in 2025) publishes no post-take-private full-year revenue in the sources consulted, and its CEO's continuity after the take-private is flagged as not reconfirmed rather than assumed. Biffa (private since 2023) publishes full operating figures but its current CFO and board chair were not verified. Urbaser publishes no 2025 revenue in the sources consulted; its 2024 filed figure (€2.4 billion) is carried, dated.

Named leadership gaps, printed in the cells rather than filled by guesswork: board chair not verified for Republic Services, Waste Connections, Biffa, Urbaser, China Everbright Environment, A2A and Hera; CFO not verified for SUEZ, Clean Harbors, China Everbright Environment, Hera and Séché Environnement; full C-suite rosters not published for most private and family companies (REMONDIS, PreZero, Tradebe, Indaver beyond its 2025 succession, Paprec beyond the family principals).

Facilities and fleet counts are published by only a minority as single dated figures. Where they exist they are carried with their dates (Biffa: 66 transfer stations and 3,722 collection vehicles, FY25; Indaver: 16 major installations, 2024 reporting; Séché: more than 120 sites, 2025; REMONDIS: about 800 locations, 2024; Paprec: about 300–350 sites, dated by source). For the other companies the cells say that no single dated count was published in the sources consulted, rather than assembling one from fragments of different years.

Contacts are printed only where the company publishes them. Published general or functional emails exist for 5 of the 25 (Republic Services investor/media, Veolia media/investor, Indaver press, Derichebourg investor relations, Tradebe head office); published phone numbers for 3 (Veolia investor relations, Clean Harbors' published switchboard, Tradebe head office). Every other entry routes contact through the company's own website, and says so. No email or number has been guessed, patterned or carried from a data broker.

Tradebe's consolidated figures are dated 2023, from its own sustainability reporting — the stalest scale figures in the guide, named here so the reader can discount them. REMONDIS's turnover is dated 2024 (its 2025 reporting, July 2026, gave growth without a figure in the report consulted).

Excluded by design, and named: municipal operators that are not companies (city sanitation departments); pure technology and equipment suppliers; and credible operators for whom leadership or scale could not be verified to this guide's standard in this edition, among them ALBA Group, Befesa, Groupe Pizzorno Environnement, Lassila & Tikanoja, Sims Limited and Averda — candidates for the next edition, not silent omissions.