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. — wired.com
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.”
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Waste Management is one place I want heavily regulated, and I'm sure most people feel the same way. The way Uber has flaunted their regulatory work arounds makes me fear that the same might become of a waste Uber, creek beds, canyons, and mountaintops filled with garbage come to mind when I think of these Silicon Valley guys "winning" with technology...
Mr_Wiggin: I'm curious what you think needs to be regulated? Depending on the market, and area, it's one of the most regulated industries around, from work place safety, to disposal, to recycling.
sounds like a good option for the mob
rnorton, this is your first and only comment ever on Archinect and you registered solely to make it.
Mr. Wiggin said clearly what regulations he's concerned about; you've essentially said clearly that you're a paid commenter employed by Rubicon.
Rubicon Global and other hedge funds should be much more heavily regulated, or better yet taxed out of existence.
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Donna I too am registering just to post this. Mr_Wiggin: The waste management field is highly regulated on many fronts, by many agencies because of the reasons named in your post. Public dumping or random dumping of unchecked stuff in unapproved areas is a great way to get your self slapped with fines and or jail time if caught. This app though does make me wonder what people will do to cut margins since one of the highest cost for garbage is what the dump charges you to take it. I am guessing rubicon will track the drivers to make sure stuff is disposed of correctly but who knows, even uber has had its issues.
Oh and rnorton doesn't sound like a paid commenter Donna just one who is smarter than you.
^ Another paid commenter (or maybe just the same one. Buy some scruples, asshole.
Waste management is highly regulated, mostly by the mob. That should make for a *perfect* marriage with Wall Street.
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Yeah I am about as paid for as you are. I never once said the thing was a good idea just that it is a regulated industry. The mob being connected in the history of waste management is an obvious thing. Why not just point out that it was the plot of the first season of the Sopranos.
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