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   Waste Connections, Inc. (The Woodlands, TX), one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. solid waste management market, has an interest in Veolia ES Solid Waste Inc. (Milwaukee, WI), which is up for sale, and could pull off a deal depending on how it is structured, according to Waste Connections CEO Ron Mittelstaedt. “We could do up to a couple billion dollars right now, no problem, with our existing credit capacity,” Mittelstaedt told Waste & Recycling News on December 28. “There are certainly large pieces of it that are very attractive to us,” he remarked. “There are some that are not as consistent with our business model, so it depends on if they sell the whole thing. Do they sell it in geographic regions? What do they do?” Stock analysts have estimated that it would take $1.5 billion to $1.9 billion to acquire all of the Veolia ES Solid Waste operations outright