GFL Environmental Inc. (an initialism of Green For Life) is a Canadian waste management company, with headquarters in Vaughan, Ontario.
[11] Also in 2014, GFL purchased the business operated by Waste Management in the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Environmental issues include the spill of 200,000 gallons of used oil by a subsidiary in Illinois;[19] a $300,000 fine from violation of federal guidelines on the sale of tetrachloroethylene (the company and its CEO, Patrick Dovigi, were charged with violation of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act);[20] and an injunction by a Cobb County, Georgia court halting the operation of a landfill.
[26][27] In July 2021, GFL created the Resource Recovery Alliance (RRA) in response to the Government of Ontario's extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulation requiring product and packaging producers to operate and fully finance Ontario's Blue Box program.
[7] GFL's award of the contract was particularly publicized because it represented one of Toronto's first moves to privatize and outsource the city's residential garbage collection.
GFL's contract with the city of Toronto to collect residential waste west of Yonge Street began in August 2012.
[33] In 2022, GFL acquired Coco Paving and its affiliates to create a group called Green Infrastructure Partners.