Residents in the City of Lakeland, Fla., pay for refuse service on a utility bill based on the size and number of containers that a customer selects for service provided by the city. The use of an RFID-enabled solution provides visibility into Lakeland’s day-to-day refuse-collection operations, as well as the ability to monitor individual customer collections with minimal driver involvement. Learn how the municipality has increased revenue recovered from households that previously might not have been charged for the services received. Additional benefits include increased recycling, reduced landfill tipping fees, a reduction in lost operational productivity due to collecting containers not tied to a paying customer, and the elimination of a paper ticket system for bulk collections left around containers.
Speaker:
Gordon Harper, Solid Waste Supervisor, City of Lakeland Public Works