Waste Management Named to World’s Most Ethical Companies List for Eighth Consecutive Year
This is the eighth time Waste Management will be honored with this award, which recognizes organizations that continue to raise the bar on ethical leadership and corporate behavior. The World’s Most Ethical Companies designation recognizes those organizations that have had a material impact on the way business is conducted by fostering a culture of ethics and transparency at every level of the company.
“This is a great honor for us and is testament to the character and
commitment of the entire Waste Management team to keeping safety, ethics
and compliance front and center in all they do,” said
Waste Management is the only company in the Environmental Services industry being honored this year.
“This is one of our company’s proudest achievements,” said
“The World’s Most Ethical Companies embrace the correlation between
ethical business practice and improved company performance. These
companies use ethics as a means to further define their industry
leadership and understand that creating an ethical culture and earning
the World’s Most Ethical Companies recognition involves more than just
an outward facing message or a handful of senior executives saying the
right thing,” said Ethisphere’s Chief Executive Officer,
The World's
Scores are generated in five key categories: ethics and compliance program (35%), corporate citizenship and responsibility (20%), culture of ethics (20%), governance (15%) and leadership, innovation and reputation (10%).
The full list of the 2015 World's Most Ethical Companies can be found at http://ethisphere.com/worlds-most-ethical/wme-honorees/.
Senior executives of honorees contribute high-level insights and best practices to the well-regarded World’s Most Ethical Companies Executive Briefing (download Volume 2 here). Additional insights gleaned from the World’s Most Ethical Companies will be released in a series of whitepapers and infographics over the coming months (download the 2014 Insights). Organizations interested in how they compare to the World’s Most Ethical Companies are invited to learn more about Ethisphere’s services.
ABOUT WASTE MANAGEMENT
ABOUT THE ETHISPHERE INSTITUTE
The Ethisphere® Institute is the global leader in defining
and advancing the standards of ethical business practices that fuel
corporate character, marketplace trust and business success. Ethisphere
has deep expertise in measuring and defining core ethics standards using
data-driven insights that help companies enhance corporate character.
Ethisphere honors superior achievement through its World’s Most Ethical
Companies® recognition program, provides a community of
industry experts with the
Source: Waste Management
Waste Management
Dawn McCormick, 954-226-9894
dmccormick@wm.com
or
Ethisphere
Clea
Nabozny, 480-397-2658
Clea.Nabozny@ethisphere.com