Tracks: Executive Management, Sustainable Resource Management
Most municipalities now collect data, but what is being done with all that information? The City of Phoenix is using real-time data collection technology to evaluate its bulk trash collection program. Understanding seasonal trends and material composition is providing management with the data needed to address diversion goals, which include reducing material that goes to the landfill by 40 percent by the year 2020 and 100 percent by the year 2050.