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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-115047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WM"
cik: "0000823768"
company_name: "WASTE MANAGEMENT INC"
filed_at: "2023-11-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T18:23:53.464008+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Waste Management amends by-laws to update stockholder proposal and nomination procedures

## Summary
- Amends Sections 2.13 and 2.14 to require additional disclosures about affiliates and associates of proposing stockholders.
- Stockholders soliciting proxies must use a proxy card color other than white.
- Updates by-laws to align with recent Delaware General Corporation Law changes and clarify voting standards for separate class votes.
- Makes gender-neutral and other ministerial revisions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-115047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WM
- cik: 0000823768
- company_name: WASTE MANAGEMENT INC
- filed_at: 2023-11-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/823768/000110465923115047/0001104659-23-115047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/823768/000110465923115047/tm2329883d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-115047.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WASTE MANAGEMENT INC: Amended and restated bylaws updating procedural mechanics and disclosure requirements for stockholder proposals and nominations, including proxy card color requirement and alignment with Delaware law (effective 2023-11-06).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-11-06
  source text: the Board of Directors of Waste Management, Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted amended and restated by-laws of the Company (the “Amended and Restated By-laws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/823768/000110465923115047/0001104659-23-115047-index.htm

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