{"id":8655,"date":"2017-08-17T18:36:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/blog\/david-plouffe-cities-are-getting-smarter-about-their-trash\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:51:17","slug":"david-plouffe-cities-are-getting-smarter-about-their-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/blog\/david-plouffe-cities-are-getting-smarter-about-their-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"David Plouffe: Cities Are Getting Smarter About Their Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"reduceFS1\"><i>NOTE: At the time this article was originally published, RUBICONSmartCity was not part of Routeware\u2019s suite of technology solutions. RUBICONSmartCity was acquired by Routeware in August 2024 and has since been fully integrated into the company\u2019s offering.<\/i><\/p>\r\n<p>When talking about city improvements, we often hear about our school systems. We hear about job training programs. We hear about infrastructure. What we don\u2019t often hear about is trash.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Smart Cities movement is all about doing more with less. It\u2019s about making our cities run more efficiently and effectively. At Rubicon, we\u2019ve developed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubicon.com\/smart-city\/\" rel=\"noopener\">RUBICONSmartCity<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a solution that helps local municipalities improve their waste and recycling programs. With data and analytics, we can make our cities safer and healthier by reducing our environmental impact (and save some cash along the way).<\/p>\r\n<p>Political strategist and former Uber executive <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Plouffe\" rel=\"noopener\">David Plouffe<\/a> recently stopped by our office to talk trash.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rubicon Spotlight | David Plouffe Talks Smart Cities\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vXRLnMz4K0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<p>Plouffe, perhaps best known for his time as the\u00a0campaign manager\u00a0for\u00a0Barack Obama&#8217;s successful\u00a02008 presidential campaign and his time serving as the\u00a0Senior Advisor to the President\u00a0(inside the\u00a0White House), later went on to serve as the Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy for\u00a0<a title=\"Uber (company)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uber_(company)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber<\/a>. Following his time with the dynamic transportation startup, he went on to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/chanzuckerberg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative<\/a>, where he leads the policy and advocacy efforts of the initiative. In addition, Plouffe also serves as an Advisory Board Member for Rubicon.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p>Interested in learning more about what we can do for you? <a href=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/get-started\/\">Get Started<\/a> today with your initial quick and free consultation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When talking about city improvements, we often hear about our school systems. We hear about job training programs. We hear about infrastructure. What we don\u2019t often hear about is trash.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resourcetype-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}