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The following table provides certain information regarding the 219 landfills owned or operated through
lease agreements and a count of landfills operated through contractual agreements, transfer stations and material
recovery facilities as of December 31, 2014:
Landfills Owned or Operated
Through Lease Agreements
Landfills
Operating
Through
Contractual
Agreements Transfer
Stations
Material
Recovery
FacilitiesLandfills Total
Acreage(a) Permitted
Acreage(b) Expansion
Acreage(c)
Solid Waste .................. 219 138,567 35,637 1,210 33 298 126
(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 Item 7.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Critical
Accounting Estimates and Assumptions included herein.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings.
Information regarding our legal proceedings can be found under the Environmental Matters and Litigation
sections of Note 11 in the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this report.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Information concerning mine safety and other regulatory matters required by Section 1503(a) of the Dodd-
Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Item 104 of Regulation S-K is included in
Exhibit 95 to this annual report.
PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of
Equity Securities.
Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “WM.” The
following table sets forth the range of the high and low per-share sales prices for our common stock as reported
on the NYSE:
High Low
2013
First Quarter ................................... $39.26 $33.70
Second Quarter ................................. 42.99 37.97
Third Quarter ................................... 43.58 39.60
Fourth Quarter .................................. 46.37 40.29
2014
First Quarter ................................... $44.80 $40.36
Second Quarter ................................. 44.87 41.05
Third Quarter ................................... 47.67 43.50
Fourth Quarter .................................. 51.94 45.50
2015
First Quarter (through February 6, 2015) ............. $53.49 $50.82
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