The company aims to optimize the management and organization of waste streams along the value chain and to test and introduce new services and technologies in this area. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and/or abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and/or abroad, acquire, hold, encumber and dispose of real estate or intangible property rights in Switzerland and/or abroad as well as conduct all commercial, financial or other transactions that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. In addition, the company may grant loans or other financing to its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries as well as to third parties, with or without consideration, and provide security of any kind for the liabilities of such persons or group companies, including guarantees, pledges and fiduciary transfers of the company's assets. Furthermore, it may engage in or participate in liquidity balancing/net liquidity centralization (cash pooling), including periodic balance adjustments (balancing), with group companies, and do so without consideration, at preferential terms, interest-free, excluding the company's profit-making intention and assuming clumping risks.