In December 2011, the company announced that it was moving its headquarters from Folsom, CA to The Woodlands, Texas, a suburb of Houston.

Chief Executive Officer, Ron Mittelstaedt, cited California's high taxes and dysfunctional legislature as key reasons for the move.

[3] In September 2012, it acquired R360 Environmental Solutions, a Texas waste company specializing in the oil industry.

[2] Under the deal, Waste Connections shareholders received 70% of the new company, which moved its tax headquarters to Canada.

Trackers indicated that Waste Connections dumped the plastic bales into a landfill in Richmond and a junkyard in Surrey, British Columbia instead of recycling them.