Re-Imagining Collaboration: How One City is Transforming Trash into Treasure

Re-Imagining Collaboration: How One City is Transforming

Trash into Resources

Dan O’NeillGeneral ManagerSustainability Solutions ServicesWalton Sustainability Solutions ServicesArizona State University

John TrujilloAssistant DirectorPublic Works DepartmentCity of Phoenix

Ryan KiraneDirector of Supply Chain Managementand Sustainability OfficerMayo Clinic in Arizona

Re-Imagining the Public-Private Partnership:How One City is Transforming

Trash into Resources

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Reimagine Phoenix: The sustainability initiative

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To educate, inspire, and engage everyone throughout Phoenix to

increase their waste diversion to 40 percent by the year 2020

while considering all aspects of reduce, reuse and recycle in

their daily lives.

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Phoenix

National average

Phoenix’s new goal

16 percent citywide

diversion rateFY 2012-13

34.1 percent national avg. recycling rate

2011

Citywide diversion rate40 percent by 2020

Citywide Goal

Solid waste travels more than

7 million miles every year –

equivalent to going to the

moon and back 14 times.

The amount of trash Phoenix sends to the

landfill each year could fill Chase Field

7 times.

2014

Focus Areas

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1. Enhance the current solid waste programs to encourage more sustainable practices.

2. Increase communication and education about sustainability to residents and businesses.

3. Partner with industry and other community leaders.

Green Organics Curbside Collection

Save as you Reduce and Recycle

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Solid Waste Program Enhancements

Bulk Trash

SAY R&R

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WebsiteNewsletters

P@YSListserve

Social Media

City-owned media

Community eventsPaid media

Communication and outreach

Community outreach

27th AvenueTransfer Station

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Innovation Campus “Hub”

Innovation Campus “Hub”

Possible benefits (2020)

4-year $2-3 million investment:

Firm revenues: $120 million

New firms: 10

New jobs: 150

Direct investment: $50 million

Diversion: 500,000 tons

Waste utilization: 1 million tons

Operational savings: $20 million

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Partnership Development

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Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System

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Mayo Clinic…world’s first multispecialty group practice

1864 W.W Mayo arrives in Rochester

1883-88 William J and Charles H Mayo join father

1914 First ‘Mayo Clinic’ building

1919 Brothers create not-for-profit Foundation

1987 Geographic expansion to Arizona and FloridaThree Shields• Patient Care• Education• Research

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• Charitable, not-for-profit; academic medical center• $9.4 billion in revenue (net and other sources)• 3,750 physicians and scientists: 2,700 residents, fellows,

and students• 55,030 – total personnel• 4,275 licensed beds – 24 hospitals in 6 states• Provide essential health care services to 1 million patients

annually from more than 135 countries

Mission:To inspire hope and contribute to health and

well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.

Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System

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Sustainability @ Mayo Clinic is…

Strategic Themes• Energy management

• Waste stream reduction

• Greening the Supply Chain

• Built Environment

• Industry Engagement

The wise use of limited resources.

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Timeline

2009-2011 Grassroots Teams

2011-2012 Strategic Plan & Committee Structure

2012-2013 Sustainability Scorecard w ASU Intern

2013-2020 Improvement Plans

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Mayo Clinic in ArizonaWaste Stream Reduction 2013Q1 13% Recycling Rate

Q2-Q3 Co-mingled recycling, Styrofoam, landscaping, and reusable pillows

Q4 Reimagine Phoenix 40x20 Challenge

Leveraging knowledge as value for public-private partnerships

Dan O’NeillGeneral ManagerSustainability Solutions Services

universities must provideeducation, discovery, innovation and interface to yield solutions to global challenges.

Global Institute of Sustainability

Over 300 sustainability scientists and scholars

Faculty teams

George BasileSustainability

Nick BrownSustainability

Nicole DarnallPublic Policy

Tom SeagarEngineering

Brad AllenbyEngineering

Ken GalluppiInfo. Modeling

Duke ReiterDesign

Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives

Delivering sustainability solutions,Accelerating global impact,Inspiring future leaders.

SolutionsServices

GlobalCenters

GlobalStudies

Festival

Next-GenerationProjects

ExecutiveMaster’s

Fellows

Climate Center

at the core: global solutions

Solutions

Sustainability Solutions Services

Our goal: to be a trusted transformational sustainability partner with our clients.

Sustainability Solutions Services

Assemble teams to collaborate with clients to deliver real, practical, effective, affordable sustainability solutions that create public and private value.

city & ngo projects/proposals

Regional• Phoenix: GHG inventory / CAP• Gilbert: building energy efficiency• Tempe: urban forestry program• The Nature Conservancy: economic viability

of small diameter pine

International• Haarlemmermeer: Beyond Sustainability• Lagos: sustainability school

corporate projects

• Waste Management: sustainability visioning• SRP: waste stream characterization• Dell: sustainable packaging• Johnson Utilities: biofuel feasibility• Ray C. Anderson: Sustainability iProjects• Henkel: product innovation• Delta Development: healthy buildings

Sustainability-DrivenEconomic

Development

The Business Case For

Sustainability

Public Private

new value creation & a sustainable future

overlapping interests

• Address key resources beginning with solid waste

• Pursue integrated resource management• Facilitate regional public/private

collaboration• Cities: mirror public works• Corporations: resource efficiency as

business case• NGO’s: key supporting issues• Complement other ASU initiatives

RISN Strategy

• Business creation and growth• Job creation• Increased waste aversion, diversion and

conversion• Cost savings and efficiencies for cities• Reputation of metro area as “smart” and

sustainable• Regional collaboration• Social and Environmental impacts

RISN key benefits

RISN projects

• Education• Multi-family recycling• Industrial recycling• Green organics• Food scraps• Construction and demolition• Waste to energy• Waste to soil• Collaboration & decision support tools

Join the network.

Create a regional innovation hub.

Share your solution.

resourceinnovation.asu.edu

QUESTIONS?

Re-Imagining the Public-Private Partnership:How One City is Transforming

Trash into Resources