Utilities: Climate & GHG disclosures

Our customers are increasingly looking for decarbonization solutions, and we are leveraging our network of landfills to meet that need. Republic is committed to harnessing landfill gas, a natural byproduct of decomposing waste, and converting it to energy. More than 89% of our landfill acreage is covered by gas collection systems. Collecting and converting landfill gas into renewable energy provides economic and environmental benefits, including reducing fugitive greenhouse gas emissions.

As of December 31, 2025, we were engaged in 77 landfill gas-to-energy projects at our landfills. The majority of these projects were developed and are owned and operated by a third party, where we earn a royalty from our supply of landfill gas to the renewable energy production facilities. We presently have more than 30 landfill gas-to-energy projects in development that are expected to begin operations in the coming years. Many of these projects produce or are expected to produce renewable natural gas, a low carbon, pipeline-quality fuel that’s fully interchangeable with fossil fuel-derived natural gas; it can be used as a transportation fuel in commercial fleets, including our own.

We also are producing renewable energy at our landfills through solar projects we host at seven sites, which generate clean electricity for local communities.

Other Services

Other revenue consists primarily of National Accounts revenue generated from nationwide or regional contracts in markets outside our operating areas where the associated material handling services are subcontracted to local operators. Consequently, substantially all of this revenue is offset with related subcontract costs, which are recorded in cost of operations.

Competition

We operate in a competitive industry. Competition in the environmental services industry comes from a few other large, national publicly-owned companies, several regional publicly- and privately-owned companies and thousands of small privately-owned companies. In any given market, competitors may have larger operations and greater resources. In addition, we

compete with municipalities that maintain material collection or disposal operations. These municipalities may have financial advantages due to the availability of tax revenue and greater opportunities for tax-exempt financing.