Rubicon expands services to 11 cities

Rubicon Technologies Inc., a waste and recycling management software provider with principal offices in Lexington, Kentucky, has expanded its smart technology for government fleets to 11 cities across the United States to help run core city operations, with a focus on solid waste collection.  

According to a news release from Rubicon, the cities included in the recent expansion are Rochester, New York; Surprise, Arizona; High Point, North Carolina; Newton, Massachusetts; Rockville, Maryland; Galveston, Texas; Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Dubuque, Iowa; North Platte, Nebraska; and Winchester, Virginia.   

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These cities run essential waste collection operations servicing nearly one million people combined across the core urban and suburban fabric of the United States. Rubicon’s technology for government fleets is helping these cities to:  

• transition from manual, paper-based processes to fully digital operations;  

• balance waste and recycling routes to provide equitable service frequency to residents;  

• reduce missed pickups and unnecessary go-backs; and  

• save money by improving operational efficiency and enhancing customer service.

“We are thrilled to partner with these 11 cities to help them transition to a more sustainable and efficient waste and recycling operation,” says Conor Riffle, senior vice president of smart cities at Rubicon. “These cities provide essential services for their communities, and we are proud to help them make data-driven decisions to improve route efficiency and enhance their residential waste and recycling services.”   

Rubicon says its RUBICONSmartCity is the smartest way for cities, counties and other municipalities to manage heavy-duty fleets, adding that it is a proprietary, cloud-based technology suite that helps local governments run faster, smarter and more effective waste, recycling and heavy-duty municipal fleet operations.

In 2022, Rubicon says it digitized 2,734 routes and serviced 2.7 million customers with RUBICONSmartCity-equipped trucks, including 906,493 new city customers. In that same period, Rubicon’s technologies helped cities eliminate 2.9 million sheets of paper and log 614,000 exceptions, with bins “not out” compromising 70 percent of all exceptions. Other exceptions include extra materials left out, blocked bins, overflowing bins and recycling contamination.