# Republic Services

> Republic Services is a Phoenix-based environmental services company that collects, transfers, sorts, treats, recycles and disposes of material for about 13 million customers across North America. Its advantage is not one truck or one landfill, but a dense, vertically integrated network that can handle an ordinary household cart, a national retailer's waste program, a hazardous spill and a stream of plastic headed back into packaging. The company generated $16.591 billion in 2025 revenue and is investing in Polymer Centers, renewable natural gas and electric collection fleets while its established route and disposal business produces recurring cash flow.

- **Founded:** 1998
- **Headquarters:** Phoenix, United States
- **Founders:** H. Wayne Huizenga (Founding chairman), Harris W. Hudson (Founding vice chairman)
- **Team size:** Approximately 42,000 employees
- **Products:** Residential recycling and waste collection, Business waste and recycling, Municipal services, Environmental Solutions, Polymer Centers
- **Notable:** Built a footprint of more than 1,000 North American locations serving about 13 million customers., Operated 18,000 trucks, 377 collection operations, 255 transfer stations, 207 active landfills and 79 recycling centers at year-end 2025., Generated $16.591 billion in 2025 revenue, $5.307 billion in adjusted EBITDA and $2.43 billion in adjusted free cash flow.

## Products & services

- **Residential recycling and waste collection** — Scheduled curbside trash and recycling, bulk, yard, organics, household hazardous waste and related services where locally available.
- **Business waste and recycling** — Recurring and temporary collection, dumpster and compactor rental, recycling programs and national-account services for commercial customers.
- **Municipal services** — Contracted collection, disposal, recycling education, digital scheduling and community programs for municipalities and homeowners associations.
- **Environmental Solutions** — Hazardous and non-hazardous treatment and disposal, field and industrial work, lab packs, remediation, tank cleaning, E&P services and 24/7 emergency response.
- **Polymer Centers** — Facilities that process PET, HDPE and polypropylene from curbside streams into higher-quality recycled inputs for packaging; Las Vegas and Indianapolis were operating by 2025.
- **Renewable energy projects** — Landfill-gas-to-energy and renewable natural gas projects, often developed with partners, plus hosted solar projects at closed or active sites.
- **Digital account tools** — Online billing, service scheduling, alerts, Track My Truck and the COR portal for environmental-services documentation and reporting.

## Achievements

- Built a footprint of more than 1,000 North American locations serving about 13 million customers.
- Operated 18,000 trucks, 377 collection operations, 255 transfer stations, 207 active landfills and 79 recycling centers at year-end 2025.
- Generated $16.591 billion in 2025 revenue, $5.307 billion in adjusted EBITDA and $2.43 billion in adjusted free cash flow.
- Completed the $2.2 billion acquisition of US Ecology in 2022, expanding hazardous-waste and emergency-response capabilities.
- Opened the Las Vegas Polymer Center and the Indianapolis Polymer Center-Blue Polymers complex, creating an integrated curb-to-packaging plastics chain.
- Brought nine renewable natural gas projects online during 2025.
- Named one of Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies for an eighth year in 2026.
- Named to Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list for a fifth time in 2026.
- Maintained a 94% customer retention rate in 2025.
- Reported safety performance 23% better than the industry average in its 2025 sustainability update.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Reported second-quarter revenue of $4.43 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $1.42 billion and increased full-year revenue guidance to $17.2-$17.3 billion.
- **2026-07** — Published its 2025 sustainability report, citing nearly $1 billion invested in sustainability initiatives during the year.
- **2026-06** — Broke ground on the San Bernardino Sustainability Park, an organics-processing facility expected to open in late 2026.
- **2026-04** — Launched California's first fully electric residential recycling and waste collection fleet with the City of San Pablo.
- **2026-04** — Opened an upgraded 54,000-square-foot Peabody Recycling Center capable of processing about 35-40 tons per hour.
- **2026-03** — Received Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies recognition for the eighth time.
- **2025-03** — Opened the Indianapolis Polymer Center and Blue Polymers complex, designed for more than 175 million pounds of recycled plastics annually.

## Links

- Website: https://www.republicservices.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/republic-services-inc/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/RepublicService
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@republic_services
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/republic_services/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepublicServices

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Last updated: 2026-08-13