The city of Phoenix has set a goal to increase its waste diversion rate to 40% by 2020 through its Reimagine Phoenix initiative. Currently, Phoenix's diversion rate is only 16%, compared to the national average of 34.1%. The initiative focuses on enhancing recycling programs, education, and partnerships. One partnership is between Phoenix Public Works and Arizona State University to create a Resource Innovation Hub that would turn waste into new resources and jobs through research and private sector collaboration. Mayo Clinic in Arizona is also working to reduce its waste stream and increase recycling as part of its sustainability efforts.

1. Re-Imagining Collaboration:
How One City is Transforming
Trash into Resources

2. Dan O’Neill
General Manager
Sustainability Solutions Services
Walton Sustainability Solutions Services
Arizona State University
John Trujillo
Assistant Director
Public Works Department
City of Phoenix
Ryan Kirane
Director of Supply Chain Management
and Sustainability Officer
Mayo 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
rate
FY 2012-13
34.1 percent
national avg.
recycling rate
2011
Citywide diversion rate
40 percent by 2020
Citywide Goal

6. Solid waste travels more than
7 million miles every year –
equivalent to going to the
moon and back 14 times.

7. The amount of trash Phoenix sends to the
landfill each year could fill Chase Field
7 times.

8. 2014

9. Focus Areas
9
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.

10. Green Organics Curbside Collection
Save as you Reduce and Recycle
10
Solid Waste Program Enhancements
Bulk Trash
SAY R&R

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Website
Newsletters
P@YS
Listserve
Social Media
City-owned media
Community events
Paid media
Communication and outreach
Community outreach

12. 27th Avenue
Transfer Station

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Innovation Campus “Hub”

14. Innovation Campus “Hub”

15. 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 Florida
Three 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 Arizona
Waste Stream Reduction 2013
Q1 13% Recycling Rate
Q2-Q3 Co-mingled recycling, Styrofoam,
landscaping, and reusable pillows
Q4 Reimagine Phoenix 40x20 Challenge

25. Leveraging knowledge as
value for public-private
partnerships
Dan O’Neill
General Manager
Sustainability Solutions Services

26. universities must provide
education, discovery,
innovation and interface to
yield solutions to global
challenges.
Global Institute of Sustainability

27. Over 300 sustainability scientists
and scholars

28. Faculty teams
George Basile
Sustainability
Nick Brown
Sustainability
Nicole Darnall
Public Policy
Tom Seagar
Engineering
Brad Allenby
Engineering
Ken Galluppi
Info. Modeling
Duke Reiter
Design

29. Rob and Melani Walton
Sustainability Solutions
Initiatives
Delivering sustainability solutions,
Accelerating global impact,
Inspiring future leaders.

30. Solutions
Services
Global
Centers
Global
Studies
Festival
Next-
Generation
Projects
Executive
Master’s
Fellows
Climate
Center
at the core: global solutions
Solutions

31. Sustainability Solutions
Services
Our goal: to be a trusted
transformational sustainability
partner with our clients.

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

33. city&ngoprojects/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

34. corporateprojects
• 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

35. Sustainability-Driven
Economic
Development
The Business Case
For
Sustainability
Public Private
new value creation & a sustainable future
overlappinginterests

37. • 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

38. • 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

39. 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

40. Join the network.
Create a regional innovation hub.
Share your solution.
resourceinnovation.asu.edu

41. QUESTIONS?
Re-Imagining the Public-Private Partnership:
How One City is Transforming
Trash into Resources