Local Government Trend: Turn Trash to Cash. Procurement Abounds.

Phoenix is building a research and technology campus to make it a leader in waste innovation.

The plan is to focus on:

• The “5 R’s”: reduce, reuse, recycle, reconsider and reimagine.
• For instance- turning a beer bottle into new glassware or compost into natural gas.

When announced, the procurement opportunities were flying:

• Phoenix received 117 proposals from 70 different companies
• “The Closed Loop Fund, which is composed of Fortune 100 consumer goods companies and retailers such as Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Walmart, will offer below-market interest rate loans (some as low as zero percent) to the businesses selected to be part of the campus.” 

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