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Recycling Pickup <br />City of La Porte July 27, 2017 <br />Executive Summary <br />On your website you say: La Porte is a city with a vision. One vision is to be recognized as a top <br />municipal corporation in the State of Texas. Your Mission Statement says that you that encourage <br />excellence at all levels, creativity, and innovation to grow progressively with the community. <br /> <br />Selecting Waste Management as your single stream recycling provider is one way to achieve your vision <br />and mission statement. Like you, we, too have a mission: Ours is to maximize resource value while <br />minimizing impact in order to further both economic and environmental sustainability for all of our <br />stakeholders. Transparency is an important part of this mission. Accordingly, we are committed to <br />consistent public disclosure and discussion of our own progress through the publication of a <br />sustainability report every two years. <br /> <br />At the core of everything we do is our firm commitment to adhering to ethical business standards and <br />th <br />practices; doing what is right in everything we do, every day. For the 11 year, we have been <br />recognized by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of <br />ethical business practices, for our ethical business practices. This honor recognizes our use of our <br />values and culture as key underpinnings to the decisions we make that influence and drive positive <br />change for our customers, employees, investors and other key stakeholders. <br /> <br />We believe our employees are our greatest assets. If we take care of them, <br />customers, our communities, our shareholders, our environment and each other. <br /> <br />As a service organization, Waste Management relies upon its reputation for reliable service, <br />compliance, safety, and sustainable innovation. Among our innovative practices is our early adoption of <br />single stream recycling, which we will propose to you in great detail within our proposal document. <br />Waste Management has worked with U.S. and International experts in material separation, image <br />recognition technology, advanced screen, high- <br />systems and motor controls, and other separating and cleaning techniques to evolve the Single Stream <br />approach to recyclables processing. We know what works and use only the best solutions for ongoing <br />contracts. Single Stream recycling provides benefits in the following areas: <br /> <br /> Collection fleet efficiency and automation; <br /> Increased household recyclables yield; and <br /> Market transformation gives the lowest cost recycling collection and processing alternative <br />available. <br /> <br />Waste Management processes more material that any other recycler in Texas. We have continuously <br />operated recycling facilities in the region for more than 40 years without service disruption. Waste <br />Management currently provides processing and marketing services for recyclable materials from more <br />than 140 facilities in North America, including 10 facilities in Texas. <br /> <br />To reduce expensive contamination at our materials recovery facilities (MRFs), we launched an <br />innovative education program that helps instruct customers and communities on what is recyclable and <br />SM <br />what is not via our Recycle Often. Recycle Right. program. and continue to invest in educating <br />SM <br />customers and communities via our Recycle Often. Recycle Right. See addition information on <br />SM <br />Recycle Often. Recycle Right. on page 6 of this proposal or on or website: www.rorr.com). <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />