BWI Holdings Inc., operating as Budget Waste Inc., is a waste solution company in western Canada. The company provides solid waste services, hydrovac truck services, and oilfield waste services.

Budget Waste was recently rewarded a Certificate of Recognition to acknowledge its compliance with health and safety standards established by the Alberta Ministry of Employment and Immigration. The company was granted the certificate after a two-year comprehensive evaluation by an independent external auditor.

Companies with this certification are responsible organizations that place a high value on safety and that must pass an annual audit. Budget Waste has a health and safety management safety process in place to minimize the incidence of injury and illness to workers involved in company operations. This is accomplished through identifying, assessing and controlling risks to workers in all workplace operations.

President and CEO of Budget Waste, Jim Can, said, “At

BWI Holdings, Inc., the small but growing Canadian based waste collection and processing company, has shown a remarkable ability to generate profit in spite of one of the worst economic downturns in memory. While many far larger companies have been scrambling just to remain in business, BWI continues to make money, moving forward toward its goal of becoming the #1 waste solution partner in North America.

One of the obvious strengths of the company is the simple fact that people require basic waste collection even in bad times. But commercial and industrial operations have been cutting back and closing their doors at an unprecedented rate, and less production means less waste material to be picked up and processed.

Nevertheless, even with drops in overall revenue, BWI reported revenue of $8,339,000 for the eight months ending December 31, 2008, with a net income of

BWI Holdings, Inc., the growing commercial and industrial waste collection and processing enterprise based in Calgary, Alberta, has high aspirations: to be the #1 waste solution partner in North America. With increasing government pressure on companies to pay attention to how they dispose of trash and waste, BWI, with its multi-faceted collection and recycling solutions, is positioning itself on top of a booming market.

To get where it wants to go, the company depends on a dedicated and aggressive management team that has accumulated a wide range of commercial and industrial experience.

• Jim Can, President & CEO – Jim Can came to BWI in 2004 with a background as an accomplished strategist and marketer, together with an MBA and a vision of what the company could ultimately become. He has led BWI’s growth in contracts with a seldom found combination of operational knowledge

Jim Can, CEO of BWI Holdings, Inc., operating as Budget Waste Inc., recently announced the appointment of Mike Elphicke as Director of Sales and Marketing for Southern Alberta. Mr. Elphicke was previously the New Business Sales Manager for the Interior of British Columbia at Waste Management. He comes to Budget Waste Inc. with a long history of sales successes and awards, including eight time recipient of the Circle Sales Achievement Award.

BWI Holdings, Inc. also recently appointed Cari Anderson as Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. Ms. Anderson has a dozen years of experience operating private businesses and most recently served in an investor relations capacity with a public mining company. There she was influential in the creation of innovative investor relations strategies.

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BWI Holdings, Inc. is a waste solutions company focused on providing complete waste and recycling services to commercial, industrial, construction, homebuilding, oilfield and residential clients. Offering a broad range of innovative services and award-winning customer service, BWI is one of the region’s fastest growing waste and recycling solutions providers.

Beginning with just 1 truck and 10 bins, the company has rapidly grown to 100+ trucks, 400 large roll-off, 1800+ small roll off bins, and 10 revenue streams. After going public in 2005, BWI Holdings executed a strategic plan for growth and acquired twelve businesses. BWI Holdings intends to acquire additional businesses as it strives to become the largest waste solutions company in North America.

BWI Holdings is committed to green environmental practices. The company actively participates in a number of construction and demolition programs that promote waste diversion and recycling. BWI Holdings has also switched all of its diesel trucks over to