Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. | A Waste Management Company

Peekskill, NY, October 14, 2004—Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. and the County of Westchester, New York, announced today the 20th anniversary of a successful community partnership of county residents, industry employees, business leaders, and city and county officials. This month marks the commercial operations milestone for the Wheelabrator Westchester waste-to-energy facility—an energy enterprise that has faithfully served 35 communities in the greater Peekskill area since 1984.

“We want to thank everyone in the communities we serve who have supported us—for their forward thinking, their creative leadership, and their continuous encouragement and partnership,” said Drennan Lowell, Wheelabrator president. “We look forward to serving the 900,000 citizens of Westchester County for decades to come.

The Westchester facility, designed, constructed, owned, and operated by Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., processes up to 2,250 tons per day of municipal solid waste and generates enough clean, renewable electricity to power more than 60,000 homes. A long-time champion of cleaner emissions, the Wheelabrator facility operates well below all local, state, and federal environmental standards. In 1999, Wheelabrator completed a major upgrade at the Westchester plant, installing state-of-the-art pollution control equipment. In June 2000, the plant, located at Charles Point overlooking the Hudson River, converted its 10 millionth ton of municipal waste into clean electric energy.

Wheelabrator Technologies (www.wheelabratortechnologies.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc., is one of the nation's largest and most successful developers, owners, and operators of commercial waste-to-energy projects. Since the early 1970s, Wheelabrator Technologies has led the development and application of successful environmental control technologies. Wheelabrator's pioneering vision continues to make a difference. For 25 years in 17 energy facilities, Wheelabrator has converted more than 100 million tons of non-hazardous municipal solid waste into more than 60 billion kilowatt-hours of clean, renewable, reliable electric power. Through Wheelabrator's efforts, each day tens of thousands of tons of solid waste are turned into clean electricity for our nation's households and businesses.

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