Company: WCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032201
Chunk: 12

Company: Waste Connections, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
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 less than one percent of the total consolidated assets of the other company; and 3) a director serves as an officer, director or trustee of a charitable organization, and the Company’s discretionary charitable contributions to that organization are less than one percent of that organization’s total annual receipts. On an annual basis, the Board of Directors reviews whether its members satisfy these applicable independence tests before any member stands for re-election to the Board of Directors. 14 2025 Proxy • Waste Connections, Inc.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Corporate Governance

Insider Trading Policy We have adopted an Insider Trading Policythat governs the purchase, sale, gifting, and/or other dispositions of securities by our directors, executive officers, and employees and other covered persons that is designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and the exchange listing standards applicable to us. Our Insider Trading Policy also governs the adoption, amendment, and termination of 10b5-1 trading plans by our Board of Directors, executive officers, and other employees and is designed to ensure compliance with applicable insider trading laws, rules, and regulations. Our Insider Trading Policy, which is overseen by the Board under our Corporate Governance Guidelines and Board Charter, prohibits our directors and officers from engaging in short sales of Company securities or purchasing financial instruments, or otherwise engaging in transactions that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of Company securities held, directly or indirectly, by them, regardless of the purpose for any such proposed transaction. Our Insider Trading Policy also prohibits our directors and officers from holding Company securities in a margin account or pledging Company securities as collateral for a loan, regardless of the purpose of any such proposed transaction, unless preauthorized to do so in certain limited situations. Our directors, executive officers and certain other selected employees are required to pre-clear all proposed transactions in Company securities with our President and Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Financial Officer or our General Counsel to confirm that such trade is not made in a trading blackout period or when in possession of material non-public information. Our Insider Trading Policy is filed as Exhibit 19.1 to our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Although the Insider Trading Policy does not apply to the Company itself, all transactions in Company securities and use of 10b5-1 plans by the Company are executed in compliance with all applicable securities laws and regulations. Code of Conduct and Ethics We have adopted a Code of Conduct and Ethics that applies to all of our directors, officers and employees