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Welcome to Public Works Department Picture of a Recycling Bin with text that reads Customer Service 602-262-7251 TTY: 602-253-8796
The Public Works Department is committed to providing the highest quality of timely, cost-effective, environmentally and diversity sensitive management of solid waste, equipment, facilities and energy programs.

20 Years of Recycling

The city of Phoenix is committed to helping protect the environment. Recycling is as important today as ever before.

Please watch this video to learn more about our recycling program


Now you can get rewarded for recycling

RecycleBank, in partnership with the City of Phoenix, is launching an exciting new recycle rewards program. Put recyclables into your blue Phoenix Recycles container and earn Points with RecycleBank. Redeem those Points for valuable rewards. The more you recycle acceptable materials, the more Points you earn. It’s easy! And at the same time you help the environment. This program is being piloted in neighborhoods in west Phoenix and those residents will receive a letter from the City of Phoenix on how to participate in this exciting program.

Video On Demand Link to the RecycleBank News Conference [Click Here]]]]]

To learn more, visit www.RecycleBank.com/phoenix or call 1-888-727-2978.


Keep Phoenix Beautiful

Keep Phoenix Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful and a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization (formerly known as Phoenix Clean and Beautiful). They have been working in Phoenix since 1982 to promote the preservation and protection of our environment. With the help of thousands of volunteers annually and financial support from the City of Phoenix Public Works Department and many corporate partners, Keep Phoenix Beautiful dedicates its efforts to recycling initiatives and education, litter reduction, beautification, and community improvement activities.

Through our partnerships and alliances, Keep Phoenix Beautiful works toward building a healthier, cleaner and more beautiful environment. To get involved or to volunteer, call (602) 262-4820, or visit www.keepphxbeautiful.org for more information.


City of Phoenix Proposed Solar Project at SR85 Landfill

landfill in operation The City of Phoenix Public Works Department is investigating the possibility of a utility scale solar plant development at the SR 85-Landfill through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process. The SR-85 Landfill is the city's only active landfill and is located west of Phoenix in the town of Buckeye, near the Patterson Road exit. The solar plant may be combined with a landfill gas to energy project on available land (up to 1200 acres) owned by the Public Works Department, click here for a fact sheet. The project would last 20-30 years and have an estimated plant output of 150-200 megawatts. To see the April 2009 City Council Report regarding this issue, click here, and for the results of the meeting, click here.

Go to http://phoenix.gov/business/contract/opportunities/rfp/index.html for information on the City of Phoenix Request For Proposal process. Choose the Utility Scale Solar Power Plant at S.R. 85 link and download the complete RFP for this proposed project.

LATEST ON THE PROJECT -

The Evaluation Team has completed the review process for RFP #09-MF-EM-002. The respondents have been ranked as follows:

Tessera Solar #1
Johnson Controls, Inc. #2
BrightSource Energy, Inc. #3

Staff will request City Council authorization to enter into contract negotiations with the Number 1 ranking firm or to authorize parallel negotiations with the Number 1 and Number 2 ranked firms.

Any and all questions regarding this process are to be directed in writing to Janet Kusmider of the Public Works Department's Fiscal Section. Please send email to janet.kusmider@phoenix.gov.


'Environmental Award for Outstanding Achievement'

Bag Central Station The city of Phoenix has earned a prestigious Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Pacific Southwest Environmental Award for Outstanding Achievement for its coordination of the “Bag Central Station – Where Plastic Bags Belong” program and for its continued efforts with its mobile Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) program. Awards were distributed at the EPA –Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco by U.S. EPA acting Regional Administrator Laura Yoshii, on Thursday, April 16.. recycling workers unload goods and sort them

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Phoenix, AZ 85004
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