Using its inheritance of a $3 million state grant, Houston trash hauler Waste Management has moved its Sustainability Services Group into the former Windsor headquarters of Oakleaf Waste Management.
Waste Management purchased Oakleaf for $425 million last July, integrating it into WM’s Sustainability Services Group to increase its national footprint and offer recycling and other sustainability services to customers.
In 2010, Oakleaf received $3 million in state aid to keep 387 jobs in Connecticut and add 40 over the next five years.
Waste Management said this economic development grant was vital to its decision to house its Sustainability Services Group in Windsor.
“I’m very pleased that we will far exceed the nearly 40 jobs guaranteed as a condition of the grant – and do so three years ahead of schedule,” Steven Preston, executive vice president of finance, recycling and energy services for Waste Management, said in a statement Tuesday.
