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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-084026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WM"
cik: "0000823768"
company_name: "WASTE MANAGEMENT INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:51:55.729581+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Waste Management grants $2.1M retention RSU award to SVP/CSO Tara Hemmer

## Summary
- Award of $2.1M in RSUs to Tara J. Hemmer, SVP and Chief Sustainability Officer, on September 2, 2025.
- RSUs vest 50% on second anniversary of grant, 50% on third anniversary; each converts to one share of WM common stock.
- Dividend equivalents accrue and are paid in cash upon vesting.
- Ms. Hemmer is not retirement-eligible until reaching age 55 in October 2027.
- Award granted under Waste Management's 2023 Stock Incentive Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-084026
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WM
- cik: 0000823768
- company_name: WASTE MANAGEMENT INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/823768/000110465925084026/0001104659-25-084026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/823768/000110465925084026/tm2524148d2_8k.htm

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