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Our company

About Rubicon

Our story

Reinventing an industry

Rubicon is a waste sciences and recycling solutions partner that helps businesses of all sizes simplify, optimize, and improve their environmental operations. Through a nationwide network of service providers, data-driven insights, and deep industry expertise, Rubicon delivers waste, recycling, sustainability, and specialty services across thousands of locations. By connecting services, vendors, data, and operations through a single platform, Rubicon helps organizations increase efficiency, improve visibility, reduce costs, and strengthen sustainability performance. Guided by a mission to end waste, Rubicon empowers customers to uncover value within their waste streams while creating cleaner, smarter, and more sustainable businesses and communities.

We manage all waste and recycling services through an extensive network of more than 8,000 vendor and hauler partners. Our programs span cardboard (OCC), plastic, paper, metal, glass, electronics recycling, construction and demolition (C&D), organics recycling (including food waste and composting services), and single-stream recycling (SSR). Our subject matter experts manage commodity markets, zero-waste programs, and other sustainability offerings across our portfolio.

Our leadership

Our values

01

Impact

We are on a mission to end waste. Our team is committed to creating a cleaner, healthier, and safer world for all.

02

Ownership

We are dedicated to serving our customers, our communities, our shareholders, and our planet. Accountability to each of these constituents drives our work and we keep the promises we make.

03

Excellence

We are never satisfied with the status quo. Our team consistently seeks out ways to better serve our customers in the knowledge that every day provides an opportunity to improve.

04

Partner-Centricity

We are dedicated to our partner ecosystem, from our waste generator customers to the haulers and vendors that support us in serving them. As Rubicon grows, our partners succeed and grow with us.

05

Unity

We are one team. Working together is the proven path to accomplishing our goals, and inclusivity, respect, and mutual support underpin everything we do at Rubicon.

Awards & accolades

World’s Most Innovative Companies

Fast Company

Best SaaS Smart City Solutions

CFI

BIG Innovation Award

Business Intelligence Group (BIG)

Emerging Innovator

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Digital Disruptor

World Economic Forum

World Changing Ideas

Fast Company

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