Domestic collection continues on a large landed base. EPA facts and figures, current through calendar year 2018, put municipal solid waste generation at 292.4 million tons, or 4.9 pounds per person per day. Almost 94 million tons were recycled and composted, a 32.1 percent recycling and composting rate. More than 146 million tons, 50 percent, were landfilled, and the landfilling section of the same page says about 146.1 million tons were landfilled.
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The enterprise print is Waste Management, Inc. Revenues were 25,204 million dollars for 2025, compared with 22,063 million dollars in 2024. The company owned or operated 253 solid waste landfills. The company managed 342 transfer stations. The company operated 113 recycling facilities. The company had approximately 60,500 full-time employees.
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China had already restricted scrap imports before this scenario. The 2017 EPA-hosted briefing records a February 2017 National Sword crackdown and a July 2017 WTO notice of an import ban covering post-consumer plastics and mixed paper, described as a ban of 24 wastes, effective at the end of that year. On 3 October, five WTO members, including the United States, questioned the ban. Those slides are a 2017 briefing. Their then-current export percentages are not used as 2024 shares.
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The remaining export outlet that names Taiwan is recovered fiber, not a refuse-truck line. Resource Recycling, citing U.S. Census Bureau trade data, says the United States exported 13.3 million short tons of recovered fiber in 2024, down from 14.8 million short tons in 2023. The same paragraph lists Taiwan at 410,000 short tons and China at 403,000 short tons. Calculated from those Census figures as reported, Taiwan was 3.1 percent. Calculated from those Census figures as reported, China was 3.0 percent. The inputs are 410,000 and 403,000 short tons over 13.3 million short tons. India is printed on that page as 2.3 million short tons, or 17 percent.
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Imported equipment is a wider customs line than a refuse truck or a compactor. On HS 870590, Special purpose motor vehicles nes, the 2024 U.S. import table prints world trade value of 662,513.71 thousand dollars and a China value of 1,787.38 thousand dollars. Calculated from the table, China was 0.3 percent of import value. Canada was 478,628.10 thousand dollars. Calculated from the table, Canada was 72.2 percent of import value. The table does not print Taiwan. On HS 847910, Mach for public works, building or the like, nes, world value was 574,916.80 thousand dollars and China was 48,836.28 thousand dollars. Calculated from the table, China was 8.5 percent of import value. Germany was 409,460.06 thousand dollars. Calculated from the table, Germany was 71.2 percent of import value. China was 12,732 items inside a world count of 236,641 items. Calculated from the table, China was 5.4 percent of the item count.
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The short-horizon cash analog is a posted tip fee, not a year-over-year peak. On the King County table the garbage per-ton fee is 243.38 dollars. The minimum fee is 40.25 dollars. Average landfill airspace depletion expense per ton was 6.96 dollars in the 10-K, which is an accounting rate, not that gate fee.
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The named operator incident is Rumpke. The notice says attackers accessed systems starting on 20 July 2024, and that Rumpke was alerted to a dark-web posting on 11 October 2024. The calculated access window is 83 days. Files included health billing and payment data. The notice does not say collection routes stopped.
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A China trade stop removes the remaining China recovered-fiber outlet of 403,000 short tons inside the 13.3 million short ton Census total reported by Resource Recycling, and it removes China as a buyer on the unbleached kraft scrap line. It does not remove the 292.4 million tons of municipal solid waste generation or the about 146.1 million tons landfilled in the EPA year that was opened.
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On HS 470710, waste and scrap of unbleached kraft paper, the 2024 export table prints world value of 1,656,194.99 thousand dollars. China is 67,471.74 thousand dollars and 296,586,000 kilograms. Calculated from the kraft table, China was 4.1 percent of export value. Thailand is 312,809.43 thousand dollars. Calculated from the kraft table, Thailand was 18.9 percent of export value. The partner list does not contain the word Taiwan. Other Asia, nes is a separate row, 80,911.26 thousand dollars, and that row is not Taiwan.
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Taiwan exports slowing is a real fiber exposure and an unproven truck exposure. The Census fiber paragraph names Taiwan at 410,000 short tons. The HS 870590 and HS 847910 import tables that were opened do not print Taiwan. The 10-K says tariffs could increase the cost of equipment procured from outside the United States, including trucks and certain equipment used for the sustainability growth strategy. That sentence does not name China or Taiwan, and the 10-K text does not contain those country names.
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A routing or weighbridge outage is the domestic week-1 break. The Rumpke notice shows a hauler IT intrusion that reached health billing files. CISA's 16-sector list is the planning backdrop, and solid waste is not the Water and Wastewater sector on that page. Collection and disposal average yield was 3.8 percent of the related business in 2025, which is the price book that keeps funding routes when the screens stay up.
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Plastics exports on the same Census article were 903 million pounds in 2024, down from 921 million pounds. The buyers named are Canada at 308 million pounds, Mexico at 190 million, India at 83 million, Malaysia at 78 million, Vietnam at 53 million, Indonesia at 41 million, and Spain at 25 million. That plastics sentence does not name Taiwan or China.
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