JPL_RFI_nonhazardous_waste-questionnaire.pdf

RFI Questionnaire 7-19.docx

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

Solicitation No. MC-2662- 1016804

Collection, Removal, Disposal, & Recycling of Non-Hazardous Waste Materials

Questionnaire

1. Can you provide composting services from point of collection to certification of disposal via composting?

2. Does your service/facility collect an organics stream for composting?

a. What licensed composting facility services your compost stream?

i. What is the waste stream that is accepted? (e.g., food, post-consumer food scraps, packaging waste, etc.)

b. What are the types and requirements of materials in order to compost by your composting facility?

c. How are organics composted (e.g., aerated piles, digester, etc.) and where does it end up?

d. What is the minimum operational heat of your industrial compost plant?

3. What innovative efforts, incentives, and cost structures do you have to enable reduction of overall waste and encourage cradle-to-grave circular economy systems (e.g., reusables versus one time use and one-time plastics, etc.)?

4. What increased capability and tracking data do you offer to support JPL’s overall goals of overall source waste reduction, reuse, recycling/composting (e.g., RFID enabled weighing systems, etc.)?

5. What dedicated waste collection streams do you collect? (e.g., mixed municipal waste, organics for compost, etc.)

6. Do you collect comingled landfill waste with unsorted recycling in your ‘general collection’ stream, or do you collect unsorted recycling as a stream separate from landfill?

7. How do you sort materials to ensure the highest diversion rate?

8. What best practice technologies does your facility utilize (e.g., optical laser sorters, etc.?)

9. What materials, including plastics, do you recycle and how?

10. What licensed landfill do you utilize?

RFI Questionnaire 7-19.docx

11. What is the diversion rate of the ‘general collection’ stream of your MRF, if applicable?

12. Does your non-recyclable mixed municipal waste go to waste, to an energy plant, or to a landfill?

13. What type of metrics or reports can you provide on a monthly basis regarding recycled waste, composted waste and landfilled waste?