WCN - Waste Connections Inc Stock Price & Dividend Safety Sector: Industrials | Exchange: New York Stock Exchange Current Price & Safety Score Price: 181.97 USD StockBonds Safety Grade: C+ Altman Z-Score (Bankruptcy Risk): 3.10 StockBond Score: 0.83 Company Description Waste Connections Inc is a leading environmental services provider that delivers a full spectrum of nonhazardous waste management solutions including collection transfer disposal and resource recovery across both the United States and Canada The company offers essential waste collection services to a diverse customer base spanning residential commercial municipal industrial and exploration and production EP sectors Beyond collection their operations encompass landfill management for final waste disposition and comprehensive recycling programs for a wide array of materials such as compostables cardboard mixed paper plastic containers glass bottles and both ferrous and aluminum metals Waste Connections also maintains and operates a network of transfer stations which efficiently receive compact and load waste for subsequent transportby truck rail or bargeto either landfills or specialized treatment facilities In the Pacific Northwest the company further provides intermodal services through a dedicated network facilitating the rail movement of general cargo and solid waste containers A specialized component of their offerings includes the treatment recovery and safe disposal of waste generated by oil and natural gas exploration and production activities This includes complex materials such as drilling fluids drill cuttings completion fluids flowback water ongoing production wastes produced water from operational wells contaminated soils requiring remediation during site reclamation and substances needing cleanup after spills reserve pit operations or pipeline ruptures Additionally the company provides equipment leasing options to its customers As of December 31 2021 Waste Connections possessed a robust infrastructure owning 334 solid waste collection operations 142 transfer stations 61 municipal solid waste MSW landfills 12 EP waste landfills 14 nonMSW landfills 71 recycling facilities 4 intermodal operations 23 EP liquid waste injection wells and 19 EP waste treatment and oil recovery facilities The company also manages an additional 53 transfer stations 10 MSW landfills and 2 intermodal operations Waste Connections Inc was established in 1997 and its corporate headquarters are situated in Woodbridge Canada