Better Health for All
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Republic Services' Modern Landfill violated the Clean Water Act 419 times between July 2019 and April 2023, discharging pollutants into a tributary of the Susquehanna River.
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The landfill generates approximately 200,000 gallons per day of leachate wastewater.
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The company has incurred over $161 million in environment-related penalties across 168 records since 2000.
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Republic Services is also responsible for the West Lake Landfill, which contains radioactive waste near residential areas, raising concerns about elevated cancer rates.
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High-polluting facilities, often disproportionately placed in communities of color, are linked to higher rates of chronic health problems.
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A court ordered the Modern Landfill to disclose waste discharge in March 2024, indicating prior undisclosed risks.
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The company has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 15%, achieving its 2025 target early, and invested over $1 billion in landfill emissions control since 2017, including a PFAS treatment system.
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Republic Services offers a confidential, no-cost Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 24/7 to employees and their families, providing up to three one-on-one counseling sessions per family member per issue annually for stress, anxiety, depression, and alcohol/substance abuse.
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The company also supports youth development programming on conflict resolution and social-emotional learning.
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Fair Money & Economic Opportunity
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Republic Services Inc. is an environmental services provider, not a financial institution. As such, the company does not offer lending or deposit services, consumer credit products, or debt products. Therefore, KPIs related to underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, data accessibility, fair lending compliance, debt burden ratio, and product simplicity are not applicable. While the Republic Services Charitable Foundation provided grants, such as $140,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles
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and $3 million in National Neighborhood Promise® grants to 15 nonprofit organizations,
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these are not part of a loan/insurance book (inclusion initiatives) nor are they reported as a percentage of pre-tax profit reinvested in community finance (profit reinvestment). Financial literacy counseling is provided by grant recipients like Habitat LA, not directly by Republic Services (financial literacy initiatives). The company does not operate financial service access points (geographic inclusion), and any wealth building outcomes from grants are indirect, not from direct financial products.
Fair Pay & Worker Respect
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The company's CEO to median employee pay ratio was 153:1 in 2024.
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Its Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) was 3.2 in 2024, with zero OSHA reportable fatalities in the same year.
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In the past three years, the company faced one substantiated labor-law violation: a $293,262.73 back pay settlement for 21 truck drivers in Orange, California, in 2024.
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A 2022 survey indicated that 46% of Black respondents and 41% of Hispanic or Latino respondents had witnessed or experienced discrimination.
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Teamsters Local 104 in Phoenix, Arizona, authorized a strike in February 2024 due to alleged violations of federal labor laws and refusal to negotiate in good faith.
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Roughly 99% of employees are full-time and receive medical, dental, and vision insurance for themselves and their families.
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The employee engagement score was 86 in 2024, with a goal to reach 88 by 2030.
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Voluntary employee turnover was 13.3% in 2024.
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Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing
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The provided articles do not contain specific, quantifiable evidence related to fair trade certifications, supplier audit frequency, forced or child labor incidents, supply chain traceability, remediation speed for violations, ethical clause coverage in supplier contracts, spend on high-risk materials, or supplier diversity spend. The articles primarily focus on the company's overall ethical recognition
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and internal workplace culture
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, which are not directly relevant to the 'Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing' KPIs.
Honest & Fair Business
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Independent external auditing covers approximately 10% of landfills annually.
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In the past three years (February 2023 - February 2026), Republic Services incurred approximately $1.02 million in regulatory fines for environmental and consumer protection violations.
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The company has a formal whistleblower policy, which includes an independent, 24/7, anonymous AWARE Line and a strict zero-tolerance for retaliation.
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The Code of Business Ethics & Conduct, which includes the whistleblower policy, was reinforced through additional communications and training for all employees in 2024, but program effectiveness is not publicly measured.
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Republic Services also maintains a comprehensive anti-corruption policy that prohibits facilitation payments and bribery, provides training for all employees, and undergoes an independent third-party assessment of its Ethics & Compliance program every three years, with the last assessment completed in 2024 by Ethisphere.
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No material violations of the Code of Business Ethics & Conduct were reported in 2024.
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Kind to Animals
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Republic Services' core business involves waste management, recycling, and disposal. For KPIs such as cruelty-free certification, alternative testing usage, humane certified operations, ethical input substitution, supplier audits for welfare, cage-free sourcing, animal testing policy and volume, innovation investment in animal-free technologies, animal agriculture ethics, animal-free R&D collaboration, and public policy engagement on animal welfare, no explicit information was provided in the articles to confirm their applicability or non-applicability to the company's specific operations. Therefore, these KPIs are omitted. Regarding wildlife conservation impact, articles detail initiatives such as a $2 million sponsorship for a 1-acre sustainable garden
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, the creation of 12 acres of new oyster habitat
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, and the active management of 165 acres for wildlife at a landfill site
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. However, the rubric's scoring tiers for this KPI are primarily based on a percentage of revenue invested, a specific financial metric not provided in the evidence. Consequently, this KPI is also omitted.
No War, No Weapons
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The provided articles do not contain specific, concrete data points relevant to the 'No War, No Weapons' ethical value. The company's core business is environmental services, focusing on waste collection, recycling, and disposal. While an incident in 2013 noted military ammunition found in a recycling plant
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, this was an inadvertent discovery within waste materials and does not indicate involvement in arms manufacturing, military contracts, or conflict facilitation. The company's employment of veterans
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and charitable giving
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are not directly related to the specific KPIs for this value.
Planet-Friendly Business
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Republic Services recorded over 10 major environmental compliance violations in 2023, including 61 methane exceedances at one landfill, three "serious" OR-OSHA violations, and a $100,000 EPA civil penalty.
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Less than 1% of its Tier 1 suppliers are required to disclose GHG emissions.
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The company has SBTi-validated targets to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 35% by 2030 from a 2017 baseline, with an interim target of 10% reduction by 2025.
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In 2024, 16.96% of its operational energy consumption was sourced from renewables.
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28% of its 2024 capital expenditure was aligned with the EU Sustainable Taxonomy.
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The company's operational waste diversion rate was 58.7% in 2024.
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Water withdrawal was 109.78 m³ per $1 million revenue in 2024.
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Republic Services provides advanced TCFD disclosures, with its fifth disclosure aligned with TCFD recommendations and climate risk integrated into its Enterprise Risk Management program.
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It conducts climate scenario analysis every two years, considering multiple pathways such as IEA APS (2.5°C-2.9°C), SSP2–4.5 (2.7°C), and SSP5–8.5 (4.4°C).
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Respect for Cultures & Communities
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No specific, quantitative evidence was found in the provided articles that directly maps to any of the Key Performance Indicators for 'Respect for Cultures & Communities'. While the Republic Services Charitable Foundation made grants of nearly $3 million in 2025
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, $3 million in 2024
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, and $2.5 million in 2023
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to various nonprofit and community organizations for neighborhood revitalization and community projects, these figures are not presented as a percentage of company revenue, nor are the recipient organizations explicitly identified as indigenous or specific cultural community groups as defined by the rubric's criteria. The nature of the projects also does not explicitly align with cultural or linguistic preservation.
Safe & Smart Tech
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Republic Services experienced a significant data breach in January 2026, with an alleged sale of a database affecting approximately 4.9 million users on the dark web.
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This constitutes an incident of unauthorized data use. The company's Privacy Policy, updated in January 2026, outlines user rights including opt-out options for marketing, and depending on state of residence, rights to access, correction, and deletion of personal information, as well as opt-out of data sale or targeted advertising, including support for the Global Privacy Control signal.
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Republic Services demonstrates good compliance with applicable regulations, specifically detailing adherence to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
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and actively recruiting for a Manager of Data Privacy & Compliance.
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The company uses AI robots for operational safety and efficiency
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and provides employees with guidelines for the safe use of AI tools like ChatGPT, advising against inputting sensitive data and requiring verification of AI-generated information.
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The cybersecurity program aligns with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
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, with quarterly updates to the Audit Committee on progress and penetration testing results, and annual external assessments.
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A Cyber Safety Awareness Campaign was launched in October 2024 to address phishing risks.
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Zero Waste & Sustainable Products
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Republic Services achieved an 83% overall waste diversion rate in 2024.
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The company demonstrates strong integration of circular design principles, notably with the opening of North America's first Polymer Center in Las Vegas, designed to produce over 100 million pounds of recycled plastics annually,
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and a partnership to create Blue Polymers, LLC, aiming for 300 million pounds annually.
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These initiatives contribute to its target of increasing the recovery and circularity of key materials by 40% by 2030 from a 2017 baseline.
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Republic Services has implemented numerous waste reduction initiatives, including launching the Thor machine for commercial composting,
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operating 20 organics recycling facilities processing two billion pounds of organic waste annually,
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and introducing Aerosol Recycling Technology for a landfill-free process.
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The company has set ambitious waste reduction targets, such as increasing beneficial reuse of biogas by 50% by 2030
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and reducing food waste by 50% by 2030,
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with progress against targets and waste data subject to third-party verification.
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No waste disposal violations were reported.
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For supplier waste requirements, the company expects suppliers to manage environmental impact and requires GHG emissions disclosure,
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but less than 1% of Tier 1 suppliers have been assessed.
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The company also runs an award-winning "Recycling Simplified" customer education program, which included a $2 million campaign to reduce contamination rates.
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