Company - Overview

Our operating strategy is disposal based, whereby we enter geographic markets with attractive growth or positive competitive characteristics by acquiring and developing landfill disposal capacity, then acquiring and developing waste collection and transfer operations.

We are organized along geographic locations or regions within the U.S. and Canada.  Our Canadian operations are organized between two regions, Eastern Canada (Ontario) and Western Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia); while in the U.S. we operate in Florida.  Accordingly, we have three operating segments, one in the United States and two in Canada.  As of December 31, 2009 we served an estimated 86,000 commercial and industrial customers and an estimated 7.2 million residential homes and owned or operated 7 landfills, 18 transfer stations, 12 recycling facilities and 33 collection companies.  For a more complete description of our services, please refer to Services.

Our stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol WSII.  Our corporate office is located at 1122 International Blvd., Suite 601, Burlington, Ontario  L7L 6Z8.