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Please find page 51 of the 2008 Waste Management annual report below. You can navigate through the pages in the report by either clicking on the pages listed below, or by using the keyword search tool below to find specific information within the annual report.we expect to continue to make investments in additional equipment and property for expansion, for replacement of
assets, and in connection with future acquisitions. For more information, see Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included within this report.
The following table summarizes our various operations at December 31 for the periods noted:
2008 2007
Landfills:
Owned .......................................................... 212 216
Operated through lease agreements ..................................... 27 26
Operated through contractual agreements ................................. 34 35
273 277
Transfer stations ..................................................... 355 341
Material recovery facilities . . . .......................................... 98 99
Secondary processing facilities .......................................... 6 6
Waste-to-energy facilities .............................................. 16 16
Independent power production plants ...................................... 5 5
The following table provides certain information by Group regarding the 239 landfills owned or operated
through lease agreements and a count, by Group, of contracted disposal sites as of December 31, 2008:
Landfills
Total
Acreage(a)
Permitted
Acreage(b)
Expansion
Acreage(c)
Contracted
Disposal
Sites
Eastern ........................ 41 29,957 6,224 534 6
Midwest........................ 75 29,357 7,539 1,755 9
Southern ....................... 77 38,409 12,146 378 12
Western ........................ 42 41,827 10,087 987 7
Wheelabrator .................... 4 781 299 42 —
239 140,331 36,295 3,696 34
(a) “Total acreage” includes permitted acreage, expansion acreage, other acreage available for future disposal that
has not been permitted, buffer land and other land owned or leased by our landfill operations.
(b) “Permitted acreage” consists of all acreage at the landfill encompassed by an active permit to dispose of waste.
(c) “Expansion acreage” consists of unpermitted acreage where the related expansion efforts meet our criteria to be
included as expansion airspace. A discussion of the related criteria is included within the Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Critical Accounting Estimates
and Assumptions section included herein.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings.
Information regarding our legal proceedings can be found under the Litigation section of Note 10 in the
Consolidated Financial Statements included in this report.
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
We did not submit any matters to a vote of our stockholders during the fourth quarter of 2008.
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