WASTE MANAGEMENT OF NJ INC

Waste Management of New Jersey, Inc. is a New Jersey operating subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM, SEC CIK 0000823768), the largest U.S. solid-waste-management company by collection volume and landfill capacity [source: https://sustainability.wm.com/]. The company operates through approximately fifteen EPA-tracked New Jersey facilities classified under NAICS 562211 (Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal — solid-waste landfill subset) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The parent corporation publishes annual Sustainability Reports including the 2025 edition aligned with SASB and GRI frameworks [source: https://sustainability.wm.com/downloads/WM_2025_Sustainability_Report.pdf].

Federal EPA ECHO records flag this entity with fifty-seven non-compliance quarterly markers across the New Jersey footprint in the most recent two-year window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) compliance-and-enforcement-solid-waste portal is the canonical state-level enforcement record source [source: https://www.nj.gov/dep/enforcement/sw.html]. The NJDEP Site Remediation Program publishes consent-decree-and-settlement records covering multiple New Jersey landfill sites, including the Combe Fill South Landfill partial consent decree archived in the Rutgers libraries [source: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/35303/] and the Kramer Landfill consent decree filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey [source: https://dep.nj.gov/wp-content/uploads/srp/kramer_landfill_consent_decree.pd]. The most recent SEC Form 10-K filed by Waste Management Inc. is dated February 9, 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000823768].

Waste Management of NJ Inc. operates a network of solid-waste-management facilities across New Jersey, including transfer stations, collection-fleet operations centers, and landfill operations. Each facility operates under combinations of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Solid Waste Facility Permits, federal Clean Air Act Title V permits where applicable to landfill-gas-collection-and-control systems, and federal RCRA Subtitle D and applicable Subtitle C authorizations [source: https://www.nj.gov/dep/enforcement/sw.html]. The NJDEP Compliance and Enforcement portal for Solid Waste publishes the canonical state-level enforcement record [source: https://www.nj.gov/dep/enforcement/sw.html].

Municipal-solid-waste landfills are subject to a distinct federal Clean Air Act regulatory regime governing methane and other landfill-gas emissions, which the Harvard EELP regulatory tracker has documented across multiple administrations [source: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/municipal-solid-waste-landfill-air-pol]. Waste Dive's 2025 coverage noted that EPA was scheduled to update its landfill air-emissions rules during 2025, an update that affects regulatory exposure across all major U.S. landfill operators including WM [source: https://www.wastedive.com/news/epa-to-update-landfill-air-emissions-rules-i]. The Congressional Research Service has separately documented the legal framework for federal methane regulation, which provides background on how the Clean Air Act's Section 111(d) and Section 112 authorities apply to landfill-gas emissions [source: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12217].

State-level methane-reduction frameworks parallel the federal regime; Colorado's Department of Public Health and Environment publishes a landfill-methane-reduction overview that illustrates the multi-state pattern of more-stringent-than-federal landfill-gas requirements [source: https://cdphe.colorado.gov/landfill-methane-reductions-in-colorado]. EPA's parallel enforcement action against two Northern California landfills for Clean Air Act violations provides comparable-peer regulatory context [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-takes-action-against-two-northern-cali].

Waste Management of NJ's enforcement-history detail centers on the NJDEP Site Remediation Program's published consent-decree-and-settlement records covering multiple historical New Jersey landfill sites. The Combe Fill South Landfill partial consent decree settlement agreement, archived in the Rutgers libraries digital collections, is one of the canonical historical records covering legacy contamination at New Jersey landfill sites [source: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/35303/]. The Kramer Landfill consent decree, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, provides another canonical record of federal-court-enforced remediation obligations at a New Jersey landfill site, with both the consent decree and the public-notice document available through NJDEP's site-remediation portal [source: https://dep.nj.gov/wp-content/uploads/srp/kramer_landfill_consent_decree.pd] [source: https://www.nj.gov/dep/srp/legal/kramer_landfill_public_notice.pdf] [source: https://dep.nj.gov/wp-content/uploads/srp/kramer_landfill_public_notice.pdf].

The NJDEP Settlements portal aggregates the broader pattern of New Jersey contaminated-site settlements, including landfill-related matters [source: https://dep.nj.gov/srp/settlements/]. The state-level enforcement footprint also reaches industrial peers in the same Linden, Newark, and Elizabeth corridor — for example, EPA's enforcement-action against Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. at its Linden, NJ facility addressed federal hazardous-waste-handling violations, with collision-week reporting documenting the $175,000 penalty settlement and EPA's published archive preserving the 2009 enforcement-orders matter against two NJ companies [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-enforcement-action-brings-safety-kleen] [source: https://collisionweek.com/2026/03/03/safety-kleen-pays-175000-penalty-settl] [source: https://www.epa.gov/archive/epapages/newsroom_archive/newsreleases/2569781c]. NJ 101.5 documented the Safety-Kleen Linden hazardous-waste inspection findings as additional public-record context for the regional regulatory environment [source: https://nj1015.com/hazardous-waste-linden-nj/].

EPA's parallel landfill-related enforcement against two Northern California landfills illustrates the multi-state Clean Air Act enforcement focus on landfill methane and air-pollutant emissions [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-takes-action-against-two-northern-cali]. Waste Management Inc.'s SEC filings — accessible through SEC EDGAR at the WM CIK 0000823768 — contain the parent-corporate Item 1A Risk Factors descriptions of material environmental contingencies and ongoing regulatory matters at the consolidated-entity level [source: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000823768].

Waste Management of NJ Inc.'s fifteen EPA-tracked New Jersey facilities span transfer stations, collection-fleet operations centers, and landfill operations across the state. The Elizabeth, NJ corporate-level address tracked in the EPA ECHO record is the New Jersey subsidiary's headquartered operating base [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. NJDEP's Compliance and Enforcement Solid Waste portal lists the active permit and enforcement records for each operating facility [source: https://www.nj.gov/dep/enforcement/sw.html].

The Combe Fill South Landfill (the subject of the Rutgers-archived partial consent decree) and the Kramer Landfill (the subject of the federal-court-filed consent decree) are two of the historical sites most directly relevant to the broader New Jersey landfill-remediation context [source: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/35303/] [source: https://dep.nj.gov/wp-content/uploads/srp/kramer_landfill_consent_decree.pd]. Both reflect the legacy-contamination overlay that pervades the broader New Jersey municipal-solid-waste-landfill operating context, regardless of current operator identity.

Pollutants of greatest concern at municipal-solid-waste landfills include: methane (a potent short-lived greenhouse gas whose 100-year global-warming potential makes it the dominant climate-impact category at landfill sites); non-methane organic compounds (a mixed VOC stream from decomposition); hydrogen sulfide and other reduced-sulfur compounds; ammonia; and a wide range of leachate-borne contaminants in groundwater and surface-water-discharge pathways [source: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/municipal-solid-waste-landfill-air-pol]. The Harvard EELP regulatory tracker documents the multi-administration evolution of the Clean Air Act methane-emission-standards-for-municipal-solid-waste-landfills rule, which is the dominant federal regulatory tool addressing landfill greenhouse-gas emissions [source: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/municipal-solid-waste-landfill-air-pol].

Waste Management's 2025 Sustainability Report quantifies corporate-level Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions trajectories, methane-capture rates across the landfill portfolio, and progress against renewable-natural-gas (RNG) production targets [source: https://sustainability.wm.com/downloads/WM_2025_Sustainability_Report.pdf]. The 2022 and 2023 Sustainability Reports document the comparable baseline figures for trajectory analysis [source: https://sustainability.wm.com/downloads/WM_2022_SR.pdf] [source: https://sustainability.wm.com/downloads/WM_2023_SR.pdf]. The WM Sustainability Hub provides the corporate-portal access to all annual reports and progress dashboards [source: https://sustainability.wm.com/].

Within NAICS 562211 (Solid Waste Landfills) Waste Management Inc.'s direct U.S. peers include Republic Services Inc. (the second-largest U.S. solid-waste operator), GFL Environmental, Casella Waste Systems, and Stericycle's specialty-waste division. Each operates a similar collection-plus-landfill-plus-recycling integrated model and faces the same federal Clean Air Act methane rules, RCRA Subtitle D landfill-design-and-monitoring rules, and state-level NJDEP, CalRecycle, or equivalent enforcement parallels. Waste Management's broader scale (collection volume, landfill capacity, fleet size) puts it on the higher end of the peer cohort; the NJ-subsidiary footprint is one component of the parent's nationwide operating base [source: https://sustainability.wm.com/].

Material forward-looking risks for Waste Management of NJ Inc. cluster on three vectors: continued legacy-landfill remediation obligations under New Jersey consent-decree commitments; potential additional federal Clean Air Act enforcement under the EPA-scheduled 2025 update to landfill air-emissions rules; and broader Sustainability-Report-target trajectory exposure as Scope 1 methane-capture targets tighten across the industry [source: https://www.wastedive.com/news/epa-to-update-landfill-air-emissions-rules-i] [source: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/municipal-solid-waste-landfill-air-pol] [source: https://sustainability.wm.com/downloads/WM_2025_Sustainability_Report.pdf].

The NJDEP Settlements portal is the leading public indicator for whether the New Jersey enforcement footprint is rising or falling year over year [source: https://dep.nj.gov/srp/settlements/]. Waste Management Inc.'s SEC 10-K filings remain the canonical place to read the parent corporation's own description of material environmental contingencies and ongoing regulatory matters [source: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000823768].