Why Bergen is a sound investment: this video makes the case for the city to businesses and investors—highlighting a modern, well-connected economy, strong quality of life, that enables sustainable growth and long-term value.
Bergen: gateway to Norway’s fjords and home to one of the world’s biggest underground waste management systems. Underneath the narrow cobbled streets of this historical /../
Half as Interesting explores Roosevelt Island’s pneumatic waste system: an underground network that whisks trash through tubes to a central plant, reducing trucks, odour and kerbside bins—an entertaining look at how vacuum collection keeps dense neighbourhoods cleaner.
Business InsiderA Business Insider “World Wide Waste” video traces how Disney’s Magic Kingdom pioneered pneumatic trash tubes and how a similar AVAC network ended up serving New York’s Roosevelt Island—reducing curbside bins and truck traffic with fast, underground collection.
What are the sustainable benefits with changing methods for collecting waste, from the traditional to Envac? We talked to The City of Bergen.
Bergen is building it’s second waste collection station, including a state of the art show room for the waste collection and four office floors for the cleansing department BIR in the same building. The building has a green focus, with plants, behives on the roof, relax terrace for the staff and of course, Envac’s waste inlets around the entrance, to be able to show off the system in its real street environment.
Why did Bergen leave the waste bins behind and changed to Envac’s automated waste collection system? Are the citizens happy? How is the project coming along? Interviews with the City of Bergen.
Smart City Upgrades & Retrofit
Ever since we installed our first waste management system in the 1960s, ingenuity has been at the core of what Envac does. In this video, /../