Republic Services (RSG) will raise its quarterly dividend by 6.7 percent to $0.32 per share in 2016. Last year RSG also hiked its dividend by 2 cents to 30 cents per share quarterly.

Republic Services, Inc. is a U.S. provider of non-hazardous solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, recycling, and energy services. Apart from collection operations RSG also operates transfer stations, landfills, recycling processing centers, treatment, recovery and disposal facilities and salt water disposal wells. Republic Services is engaged in landfill gas-to-energy and renewable energy projects and has post-closure responsibility for closed landfills. RSG was incorporated in Delaware in 1996 and has paid a dividend since 2003. The company has operations in the United States and Puerto Rico.