Recycling marketplace Rubicon has signed a three-year smart city partnership with Atlanta to enhance its residential waste and recycling services.

Atlanta’s Department of Public Works will adopt Rubicon’s smart city software. Rubicon will help the Department optimise routes, digitise route sheets, work flows, tracking exceptions in the field, and improve routing for the City’s bulky waste pick-up drivers, and street sweeping. The City will use Rubicon’s technology to balance waste and recycling routes to streamline collection, track material and tonnage on its bulky trash routes, and reduce missed pick-ups and unnecessary go-backs.

Atlanta plans to closely monitor route performance, identify areas where waste, recycling, and street sweeping services can be improved, and make data-driven decisions to enhance route efficiency.

“We are thrilled to once again be working with the City of Atlanta to deliver innovative waste and recycling solutions through the power of Rubicon’s smart city technology,” said Conor Riffle, Senior Vice President of Smart Cities at Rubicon. “Our partnership is already helping Atlanta to better manage its waste and recycling services, while also improving route efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing the overall quality of life for its residents.”

With a population of 498,715, the City of Atlanta is focusing smart city efforts on five pillars: multi-mode transport, public safety, the environment, city operations efficiency, and citizen/business engagement. The City is utilising data to make better-informed decisions that impact its residents, visitors, and businesses. Employing a data-centric model, the City can use descriptive, prescriptive, and predictive capabilities to improve city operational efficiency, service delivery, and transparency.

RUBICONSmartCity is a proprietary, cloud-based technology suite that helps local governments run more effective waste, recycling, and heavy-duty municipal fleet operations. It helps existing government-owned fleets improve neighbourhood streetscapes by monitoring vehicle health, improving driver behaviour, and ensuring that materials are collected efficiently.