Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-054854
Chunk: 86

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: 424B5
Chunk 86
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we will prepare and deliver certificates for such securities in exchange for beneficial interests in the global securities. Any beneficial interest in a global security that is exchangeable under the circumstances described in the preceding sentence will be exchangeable for securities in definitive certificated form registered in the names that the depositary directs. It is expected that these directions will be based upon directions received by the depositary from its participants with respect to ownership of beneficial interests in the global securities.

We have obtained the information in this section and elsewhere in this prospectus concerning DTC and DTC’s book-entry system from sources that are believed to be reliable, but we take no responsibility for the accuracy of this information.

### PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
We may sell the securities offered pursuant to any applicable prospectus supplement, directly to one or more purchasers, through dealers, agents, or underwriters or through a combination of any of these methods of sale. We may sell the securities offered pursuant to any applicable prospectus supplement on a negotiated or competitive bid basis through underwriters or dealers or directly to other purchasers or through agents. We will name any underwriter, dealer, or agent involved in the offer and sale of the securities in the applicable prospectus supplement. We reserve the right to sell the securities directly to investors on our own behalf in those jurisdictions where and in such manner as we are authorized to do so.

Certain of the underwriters, dealers, or agents and their respective associates may be customers of, and/or engage in transactions with, and perform services for us in the ordinary course of business.

### LEGAL MATTERS
Certain legal matters relating to the securities offered hereby are being passed upon for us by Locke Lord LLP, Houston, Texas. The validity of issuance of the offered securities and other matters arising under Canadian law are being passed upon for us by Bennett Jones LLP, Calgary, Alberta. Any underwriters will be advised about other matters relating to any offering by their own legal counsel that we will name in the applicable prospectus supplement.

### EXPERTS
The audited financial statements and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting incorporated by reference in this prospectus and elsewhere in the registration statement have been so incorporated by reference in reliance upon the reports of Grant Thornton LLP, independent registered public accountants, upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

### INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE
The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” into this prospectus the information we file with the SEC, which means