Archinect - News2024-04-30T16:23:38-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/131344912/the-uber-of-waste-management-is-coming-for-your-trash
The Uber of waste management is coming for your trash Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2015-07-07T17:38:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9q/9qb5i8s9pfsdbcih.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Unlike Waste Management and other garbage giants, Rubicon doesn’t operate its own trucks or own any landfills. Instead, it runs a tech platform that connects small, local haulers with major companies that want to cut down on their garbage costs and increase their recycling efforts.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Rubicon Global, which previously helped Fortune 500 companies save money with their own garbage management, is now bringing their services to the regular folks. The app for on-demand waste pick-up was largely devised by Uber's founding CTO, Oscar Salazar, who is now working as Rubicon's CTO. Pent-up demand for "disrupting" the waste management system seems, naturally, pretty high, and Rubicon's co-founder / CEO Nate Morris seems assured of the app's success: “We know from the past that when technology competes against brick-and-mortar assets, technology wins every time.”</p><p>More on garbage and waste management:</p><ul><li><a title="Transforming a garbage heap into a public park" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/130959709/transforming-a-garbage-heap-into-a-public-park" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transforming a garbage heap into a public park</a></li><li><a title="Consider the dumpster..." href="http://archinect.com/news/article/94341187/consider-the-dumpster" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Consider the dumpster...</a></li><li><a title="Screen/Print #13: One:Twelve's "Black and White"" href="http://archinect.com/features/article/98156717/screen-print-13-one-twelve-s-black-and-white" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Screen/Print #13: One:Twelve's "Black and White" – the story of New York City's white knights of waste management</a></li></ul>