Economic Benefits

Arkansas' solid waste industry provides essential services to residents and businesses within the state. These services include refuse collection, transportation, recycling, composting, waste disposal and waste-to-energy services.

Waste Management in Arkansas

There are 24 Class 1 landfills in Arkansas that are permitted to accept municipal solid waste. Waste Management subsidiaries operate four of these, including the Tontitown Landfill, and employs more than 330 people statewide. It also operates the Two Pine Landfill in Jacksonville, the Jefferson County Landfill and the Ozark Ridge Landfill in Yell County. Collectively, throughout Arkansas, Waste Management serves more than 200,000 residents and businesses and contributes more than $250,000 in financial and in-kind support to community groups, organizations and foundations.

Waste Management in Tontitown

• Employs more than 65 local residents and operates 40+ trucks
  
  
• Contributes more than $6.5 million annually to the local economy in payroll, local goods and services
  
  
• Pays more than $1.5 million a year in fees to local and state governments
  
  
• Services the waste needs of more than 60,000 residential, industrial and commercial customers
  
  
• Safely disposes of the majority of waste generated in Benton, Madison and Washington Counties (the Tri-County Solid Waste District projects that in 2005, these three counties will generate nearly 476,000 tons of waste)

Recycling in Northwest Arkansas

Waste Management, through its subsidiary Recycle America Alliance, provides curbside recycling services for the City of Rogers, City of Springdale, City of Elkins and the City of Farmington. Combined, Waste Management recycles more than 9,000 tons a year, making it the biggest recycler in Northwest Arkansas.