Today, Fast Company announced that Rubicon has been named to its prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. Rubicon was named number six in the Enterprise category, alongside such leading companies as Honeywell (#4) and Microsoft (#5). This year’s Most Innovative Companies list features 463 businesses from 29 countries. Coming five … Continued
Following Rubicon’s first webinar (which is still available to stream), the week before last was the busiest week in Rubicon’s virtual events calendar to date, with three major public events over three days, featuring Rubicon® speakers from across the company. In a series of two blog posts, the first focusing on Rubicon’s work with city … Continued
September 18, 2020 Update: Thank you to all of those who joined this webinar. If you missed it, it is available to stream on demand at this link. The COVID-19 public health emergency has shattered the norms under which public and private entities have worked for more than a century. Against the backdrop of millions … Continued
Earlier this month, Rubicon® announced the launch of our company’s first Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report. If you have yet to download the report I encourage you to do so now to read more about what Rubicon is doing to transform the entire category of waste and recycling. By 2025, the world’s urban areas … Continued
Times of crisis reveal character more than they build character, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the leadership that we are seeing from so many of our RUBICONSmartCity™ partners. From the moment that this public health crisis started to unfold in our communities—to now, as we all manage to a new normal—I have … Continued
We have come a long way since our company’s founding over ten years ago. In celebrating our ten-year anniversary last year, we looked at the three core pillars—the foundational elements—of our continued success, namely our mission, our customers, and our employees. Rubicon’s mission is to end waste, in all of its forms, by helping our … Continued
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are integrated, transparent, and universal, and that are fundamentally about making the world—and its resources—work better for all people. In discussing these goals I’m going to focus primarily on sustainable cities. Cities are … Continued
Welcome to Street Smart, an interview series from Rubicon in which we sit down with a key city official from one of our smart cities to talk about their city, their commitment to sustainability, and how they’re collaborating with us in our mission to end waste. Todd Strange was the 56th Mayor of the City … Continued
As you may have seen across traditional and social media throughout the month of October, Rubicon® implemented a unique Halloween campaign tied back directly to our company mission to end waste. Research shows that in the United States alone, more than 600 million pounds of candy are purchased each year for Halloween. The vast majority … Continued
Last week I spoke at Government Fleet Expo & Conference (GFX) in New Orleans about how cities can leverage their municipal fleets in previously unimaginable ways to transform themselves into smart cities. Of course, a key aspect of my remarks focused on Rubicon’s own RUBICONSmartCity™ offering; a technology platform which has now been rolled out … Continued