139
tons/day
designed collection capacity
- Location
- Guangzhou, China
- Client
- Urban Management Commission of Guangzhou Municipality
- Segment
- Cities
- Launch
- 2008
The brief
Jin Sha Zhou Eco-town is a new ecological residential demonstration area planned by the Guangzhou municipal government, located in the west of Guangzhou, with a total area of 9.3 square kilometres and a population of 160,000. It is a residential Eco-town with low-rent and affordable housing community, high-grade property community, hospitals, schools and related supporting facilities.
Jin Sha Zhou is the first district in Guangdong province to be equipped with an Envac pneumatic waste collection system, while Jin Sha Zhou Eco-town is the first comprehensive residential district in mainland China to be equipped with the system.
1
waste fraction
rest
The system is flexible. It is easy to add more fractions if requested.
3,100 waste inlets
3,000 indoors
100 outdoors
conveniently located across the area for easy disposal
The Project
Each developer invests in the installation of the waste collection system in their property, and then accesses the public network of the government. This way the Envac system solution covers the whole Jin Sha Zhou Eco-town. The construction model is similar to gas and power.
The total investment by government of four region Jin Sha Zhou Eco-town is 300 million yuan, including 100 million yuan of equipment investment.
Each developer invests in the installation of the waste collection system in their property, and then accesses the public network of the government. This way the Envac system solution covers the whole Jin Sha Zhou Eco-town.
The construction model is similar to gas and power. The total investment by government of four region Jin Sha Zhou Eco-town is 300 million yuan, including 100 million yuan of equipment investment.
The Result
- The space that is normally used for traditional waste transfer stations can now be used for construction of new apartments.
- Became the first residential community in Guangdong province to use the pneumatic waste collection systems, and the first comprehensive residential community in China mainland to use the system.
- Greatly reduced the labor intensity of local cleaning workers. It saves the work and cost of collecting waste layer by layer in the high-rise residential buildings.
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