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City of Phoenix calls for partners through Call for Innovators and RFP

The city of Phoenix, through its Reimagine Phoenix initiative, is seeking additional partners to achieve the city’s goal of diverting 40 percent of waste from the city’s landfill by 2020. Interested parties will be able to submit proposals through two engagement opportunities: Reimagine Phoenix Call for Innovators; and Transforming Trash into Resources Pilot Program Request for Proposals.

Published 9 years ago | About a 2 minute read

Through the Reimagine Phoenix Call for Innovators (CFI), the city seeks information from innovators with technologies and manufacturing processes that transform trash into energy and new products. The city is looking to learn the “who, what, where and how” about market-ready and start-up/emerging technologies and wants to know what assistance, if any, innovators would need from the city to bring their technologies and manufacturing processes to Phoenix. The city will review the CFI responses and then craft a future solicitation for each viable business opportunity.

The city is also seeking innovators to recycle or repurpose items the city currently landfills or pays to process. Through the Transforming Trash into Resources Pilot Program Request for Proposals (RFP), the city hopes to entice organizations to consider giving these landfilled items new lives as part of their for-profit and/or social impact missions. The RFP specifically lists non-rechargable batteries, carpeting and carpet foam, furniture, latex paint, mattresses, palm fronds and residential food waste as items for repurposing and offers and option for innovators to propose reusing other items from the waste stream as well.

As part of the Reimagine Phoenix initiative, the city is establishing a Resource Innovation Campus at the current site of their 27th Avenue Waste Transfer Station, which will include a business incubator where selected proposals may be based. The incubator will be operated by the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network, a partnership between the city and Arizona State University to establish a global network of collaborators creating value and economic development through circular resource loops.

To be notified when the CfI and RFP will be issued, please email [email protected]