Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CWST) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

At the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Casella Waste
Systems, Inc. (the Company) held on June 6, 2017 (the Annual
Meeting), the Companys stockholders voted on the following matters,
which are described in detail in the Companys definitive proxy
statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
April 24, 2017: (i) to elect three Class II directors, each to
serve a term expiring at the 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
(Proposal 1); (ii) to approve, in an advisory say-on-pay vote, the
compensation of the Companys named executive officers (Proposal 2);
(iii) to recommend, in an advisory say-on-frequency vote, the
frequency of future advisory say-on-pay votes (Proposal 3); and
(iv) to ratify the appointment of RSM US LLP as the Companys
independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017
(Proposal 4). At the Annual Meeting, the stockholders of the
Company re-elected the nominees of the Company’s Board of
Directors (the “Board”), Joseph G. Doody, Emily Nagle Green and
Gregory B. Peters, as Class II directors, approved Proposal 2 and
Proposal 4 and recommended a frequency of 1 Year on Proposal 3. At
the Annual Meeting, the holders of shares of the Companys common
stock representing 46,534,359 votes were represented in person or
by proxy, constituting a quorum.

Set forth below are the final voting totals for the proposals acted
upon at the Annual Meeting:

>Mr. Peters was nominated as the Companys Class A director.
Under the Companys certificate of incorporation, the holders of the
Companys Class A common stock, voting separately as a class, are
entitled to elect the Class A director.

The terms of the following directors continued after the Annual
Meeting: John W. Casella, William P. Hulligan, James E. OConnor,
Michael K. Burke, James F. Callahan, Jr. and Douglas R. Casella.

>After taking into consideration the foregoing voting results
and the Boards prior recommendation in favor of an annual advisory
say-on-pay vote on the compensation of the Companys named executive
officers, the Board intends to hold future advisory say-on-pay
votes on the compensation of the Companys named executive officers
every year.

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