PROJECT HIGHLIGHT
Challenge The City of Atlanta needed to optimize waste and recycling collection throughout all City neighborhoods by: • Improving the operational efficiency of City departments. • Increasing recycling participation rates and effectiveness.
Solution Routeware SmartCity is now installed in all City-owned refuse trucks (89 garbage, recycling, and yard waste vehicles servicing 96,000 residential customers) serving as a data collection tool to provide baseline data and valuable insights into Atlanta’s waste and recycling services and trends.
• Delivered savings of 4,752 MTCO2e , which is equivalent to avoiding greenhouse gas emissions from 1,656 tons of waste (or 237 full garbage trucks) recycled instead of landfilled. Additionally, as part of a route optimization project for the City, Atlanta and Routeware unlocked major potential cost savings and increased efficiencies by adjusting the City’s solid waste service schedule from four to five days, decreasing the total amount of trash routes per day and balancing the number of hours driven among drivers.
After analyzing landfill diversion data from a 6-month pilot of the technology, the City:
• Reduced the number of
recyclables going to landfills over six months by 83%, equaling 355 tons of recyclable material kept out of landfills.
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