Waste Connections, Inc. is an integrated municipal solid waste services company, which provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets in the U.S. and Canada. It also provides intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest. The company was founded by Ronald J. Mittelstaedt on September 9, 1997 and is headquartered in Vaughan, Canada.