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
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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.
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.
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'
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..
Public Works Department
101 S. Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602-262-7251 TTY 602-253-8796
Keep
Phoenix Beautiful
