Allied Waste Industries was a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. A vertically integrated company that owned and operated solid waste collection businesses, recycling facilities, and landfills, it was a leader in the solid waste industry in the United States. It served more than 10 million residential, commercial and industrial customers across 128 major markets in 37 states and Puerto Rico. After purchasing Houston-based giant waste hauler Browning-Ferris Industries in 1999, together with private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Apollo Management., Allied Waste... Industries, Inc. became the second largest non-hazardous solid waste management company in the United States , with annual revenues of over $5 billion and assets of nearly $14 billion. On June 23, 2008, Allied was purchased by its smaller competitor Republic Services, Inc for $6.1 billion USD. The merged company, retaining the Republic name, has become the second largest non-hazardous solid waste management company in the United States. The company had a plan to reduce its local carbon footprint by more than 3.
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