# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001318220
**File Stem:** 0000000000-23-001993
**Filing Date:** 2023-2
**Character Count:** 8558
**Document Hash:** 93d01ac680aef97863f5cb71f3e85d7c
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000000000-23-001993.hdr.sgml**: 20230418

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000000000-23-001993

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: UPLOAD

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230228

**FILED FOR**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Waste Connections, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001318220
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** REFUSE SYSTEMS [4953]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** A6
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** UPLOAD

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 6220 HWY 7
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 600
- **CITY:** WOODBRIDGE
- **STATE:** A6
- **ZIP:** L4H 4G3
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (905) 532-7510

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 6220 HWY 7
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 600
- **CITY:** WOODBRIDGE
- **STATE:** A6
- **ZIP:** L4H 4G3

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20110503

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** IESI-BFC Ltd
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20090522

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** BFI Canada Ltd
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20081015
**PUBLIC REFERENCE ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001558370-23-001404

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United States securities and exchange commission logo

                              February 28, 2023

       Worthing Jackman
       President and Chief Executive Officer
       Waste Connections, Inc.
       6220 Hwy 7, Suite 600
       Woodbridge
       Ontario L4H 4G3
       Canada

                                                        Re: Waste Connections,
Inc.
                                                            Form 10-K for the
Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2022
                                                            Filed February 16,
2023
                                                            File No. 001-34370

       Dear Worthing Jackman:

              We have limited our review of your filing to the financial
statements and related
       disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we
may ask you to
       provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to these comments within ten business days by
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
       comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.

                                                        After reviewing your
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

       Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2022

       Non-GAAP Financial Measures, page 72

   1.                                                   We note your disclosure
explaining that you present a measure of adjusted free cash flow
                                                        because it is widely
used as a liquidity measure in the solid waste industry. You include a
                                                        reconciliation between
this non-GAAP measure and net cash flows provided by operating
                                                        activities, which is
generally regarded as a liquidity measure, and identify adjustments for
                                                        various cash
transactions in defining the measure.

                                                        However, you also
disclose that you are using the adjusted free cash flow measures to
                                                        evaluate and monitor
the ongoing financial performance of your operations and explain
                                                        that you    further
adjust    the calculation to exclude the effects of items that you believe
                                                        impact your ability to
assess the operating performance of the business.
 Worthing Jackman
Waste Connections, Inc.
February 28, 2023
Page 2

         Please expand your disclosure to explain how management is using the
non-GAAP
         adjusted free cash flow measures to assess performance, include the
reasons you believe
         the measures are useful to investors, and provide a reconciliation
between the most
         directly comparable GAAP measure of performance and your non-GAAP
measures to
         comply with Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) and (C) of Regulation S-K.

         Please also revise your description of adjusted free cash flow to
encompass all of the
         adjustments depicted in your reconciliation and to clarify why
distributions to non-
         controlling interests are mentioned but do not appear in the
reconciliation.
       In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are
responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review,
comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.

       You may contact Joseph Klinko, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3824 or
Gus Rodriguez,
Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3752 with any questions.

FirstName LastNameWorthing Jackman                             Sincerely,
Comapany NameWaste Connections, Inc.
                                                               Division of
Corporation Finance
February 28, 2023 Page 2                                       Office of Energy
& Transportation
FirstName LastName

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CORPORATION FINANCE

# UNITED STATES  
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION  
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

February 28, 2023

Worthing Jackman  
President and Chief Executive Officer  
Waste Connections, Inc.  
6220 Hwy 7, Suite 600  
Woodbridge  
Ontario L4H 4G3  
Canada

**Re: Waste Connections, Inc.**  
**Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2022**  
**Filed February 16, 2023**  
**File No. 001-34370**

Dear Worthing Jackman:

We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.

Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.

After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2022

Non-GAAP Financial Measures, page 72

1. We note your disclosure explaining that you present a measure of adjusted free cash flow because it is widely used as a liquidity measure in the solid waste industry. You include a reconciliation between this non-GAAP measure and net cash flows provided by operating activities, which is generally regarded as a liquidity measure, and identify adjustments for various cash transactions in defining the measure.

However, you also disclose that you are using the adjusted free cash flow measures to evaluate and monitor the ongoing financial performance of your operations and explain that you “further adjust” the calculation to exclude the effects of items that you believe impact your ability to assess the operating performance of the business.

Worthing Jackman
Waste Connections, Inc.
February 28, 2023
Page 2

Please expand your disclosure to explain how management is using the non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow measures to assess performance, include the reasons you believe the measures are useful to investors, and provide a reconciliation between the most directly comparable GAAP measure of performance and your non-GAAP measures to comply with Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) and (C) of Regulation S-K.

Please also revise your description of adjusted free cash flow to encompass all of the adjustments depicted in your reconciliation and to clarify why distributions to non-controlling interests are mentioned but do not appear in the reconciliation.

In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff.

You may contact Joseph Klinko, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3824 or Gus Rodriguez, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3752 with any questions.

Sincerely,

Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation