Casella Waste Systems Publishes Its 2022 Sustainability

RUTLAND, Vt., Oct. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CWST) printed its 2022 Sustainability Report at present, outlining the corporate’s progress towards its sustainability imaginative and prescient, whereas elevating 5 key sustainability metrics to the forefront of its strategic targets.

“With this year’s report, we introduce a distilled focus on five primary goals,” stated Casella Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, John W. Casella. “While we intend to continue internally measuring our performance against many key sustainability indicators, we believe that elevating our five primary metrics will allow us to maintain a high level of focus around our most important and impactful 2030 goals.”

Casella’s 5 key parts to its sustainability technique embrace metrics centered on the individuals who work for the corporate, the supplies the corporate manages, the operations that handle these supplies, the emissions these operations produce, and the communities wherein the corporate operates. For every ingredient, Casella has established a major metric and a 2030 objective in addition to extra components that can assist the corporate advance its sustainability imaginative and prescient.

“This Report showcases the progress we have made since we introduced our Sustainability Goals in 2020, while also recognizing the changing environment in which we operate,” Casella stated. “It is increasingly important to all our key stakeholders that we remain both economically and environmentally sustainable. Our industry is evolving, and our company is proud to be one of the leaders of this evolution.”

Casella’s historical past as a frontrunner in sustainability is marked by a number of milestones in supplies administration featured within the report, and its deal with local weather management has been current for almost 20 years.

As the one waste and recycling firm among the many founding members of the EPA Climate Leaders program, Casella diminished its carbon footprint by 45% from 2005 to 2010. The firm’s local weather achievements have been acknowledged in 2012 by the EPA, the Association of Climate Change Officers, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, and the Climate Registry with a Climate Leadership Award for Excellence in GHG administration. Casella’s first sustainability report was issued in 2009.

A pioneer in sustainable waste and recycling innovation, Casella established the primary recycling facility in Vermont in 1977 and, was a constitution member of the EPA Climate Leaders program, and the 2022 Sustainability Report is the corporate’s sixth biennial report on its sustainability actions.

Casella’s 2022 Sustainability Report can be read or downloaded here.

About Casella Waste Systems, Inc.
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., headquartered in Rutland, Vermont, gives stable waste administration companies consisting of assortment, switch, disposal, and recycling companies within the northeastern United States. For additional data, traders ought to contact Jason Mead, SVP Finance & Treasurer at (802) 772-2293, and media ought to contact Jeff Weld, Director of Engagement at (802) 772-2234, or go to the corporate’s web site at http://www.casella.com.

Safe Harbor Statement
Certain issues mentioned on this press launch, together with, however not restricted to, the statements relating to the Company’s intentions, beliefs or present expectations regarding its sustainability targets and commitments and anticipated actions to fulfill such targets and commitments, and the Company’s progress in the direction of, and achievement of, its sustainability technique and imaginative and prescient, are “forward-looking statements” meant to qualify for the protected harbors from legal responsibility established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can typically be recognized as such by the context of the statements, together with phrases corresponding to “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “may,” “would,” “intend,” “estimate,” “will,” “guidance” and different comparable expressions, whether or not within the unfavourable or affirmative. These forward-looking statements are primarily based on present expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections in regards to the business and markets wherein the Company operates and administration’s beliefs and assumptions. The Company can’t assure that it really will obtain the plans, intentions, expectations or steering disclosed within the forward-looking statements made. Such forward-looking statements, and all phases of the Company’s operations, contain a lot of dangers and uncertainties, any a number of of which might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these described in its forward-looking statements.

Such dangers and uncertainties embrace or relate to, amongst different issues, the next: the flexibility to enhance the Company’s security efficiency; the flexibility to extend the quantity of recyclables processed or different sources managed; the influence of modifications to, or new, statutory, regulatory and authorized necessities; the flexibility to enhance the Company’s gas effectivity; the flexibility to additional cut back the Company’s carbon footprint; and the quantity of the Company’s giving in its communities. There are a lot of different necessary dangers and uncertainties that might trigger the Company’s precise outcomes to vary materially from these indicated by such forward-looking statements. These extra dangers and uncertainties embrace, with out limitation, these detailed in Item 1A, “Risk Factors” within the Company’s Form 10-Ok for the fiscal 12 months ended December 31, 2021 and within the Company’s Form 10-Q for the quarterly interval ended June 30, 2022, and in different filings that the Company could make with the Securities and Exchange Commission sooner or later. The Company undertakes no obligation to replace publicly any forward-looking statements whether or not because of new data, future occasions or in any other case, besides as required by legislation.

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