Waste Connections is an integrated solid waste services company that provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly secondary markets in the Western and Southern United States. The company serves more than 1 million residential, commercial and industrial customers from a network of operations in nearly 25 states. It also provides intermodal services for the movement of containers in the Pacific Northwest. Waste Connections was founded in 1997 through the purchase of five operations in Washington and Idaho from Browning-Ferris Industries. It went public in 1998 and expanded into California. Waste Connections customers range from individual residential subscribers to county contracts and include industrial and commercial accounts and contracts with homeowners associations, apartment owners and mobile home operators. Waste Connections maintains a location in Casper, Wyo.