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Republic Services, Inc.

A major environmental services company, Republic Services provides trash and recycling pickup for homes and businesses across the United States, running the landfills, transfer stations, and recycling centers where the waste ends up. The company grew out of Republic Waste Industries, a trash firm that entrepreneur Wayne Huizenga — famous for building Blockbuster and Waste Management — began investing in during the mid-1990s. In 1998 the waste division was spun off on its own, while its former parent renamed itself AutoNation, the car-dealer chain.