After gobbling up a string of waste management companies over the past few years, Houston, Texas-based USA Waste Services, Inc. is ready to go whole hog. Since joining USA Waste as chairman and chief executive in 1994, John E. Drury began a series of acquisitions that included Chambers Development, Western Waste Industries, Sanifill and United Waste Systems. According to The Wall Street Journal, presently owns 250 collection operations, 182 landfills and 175 transfer stations across the United States and Canada. Those numbers could almost double by next fall, however, as USA Waste and Waste Management, Inc. (WM) announced in March, 1998 that they will merge. Drury's company will take over …
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