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| 1982 || General || Organization (for-profit) || [[w:Waste Management (corporation)|Waste Management inc]] becomes the world’s largest waste disposal company, with more than US$1 billion in sales.<ref>{{cite web |title=GOING FROM WASTE COLLECTION TO WASTE MANAGEMENT |url=https://www.wm.com/us/en/about-us/our-story |website=wm.com |accessdate=28 April 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 1983 || {{w|Electronic waste}} || Waste disposal incident || The {{w|Atari video game burial}} is undertaken as a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a {{w|New Mexico}} landfill site.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Mexico city finds buried treasure of Atari games |url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/01/technology/atari-et/index.html |website=money.cnn.com |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ATARI VIDEO GAME BURIAL HITS EBAY |url=https://hackaday.com/2014/11/05/atari-video-game-burial-hits-ebay/ |website=hackaday.com |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 1983 || General || Publication || ''{{w|Waste Management & Research}}'' launches as a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of waste management.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Resource efficiency and waste management: the science challenge |doi=10.1177/0734242X12468411 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0734242X12468411}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
