Singapore has paved the way for sustainable waste collection via pneumatic waste conveyance systems (PWCS) following its decision to make the technology mandatory in new non-landed developments with at least 500 dwellings.

An upmarket regeneration development in Seoul’s vibrant Seocho Gu district has commissioned Envac’s automated waste collection system (AWCS) to collect the waste of a library, kindergarten, care home, neighbourhood facilities and 2,296 mixed use apartments over a 32-acre site when it goes live in 2022.

Stockholm now joins other visionary cities around the world including Seoul, Singapore, Helsinki and Bergen in treating waste collection as a utility and ensuring that AWCS features at the initial planning application stages as opposed to traditional bins, which are typically a post-planning consideration.

London is set to become home to one of the largest automated waste collection systems (AWCS) in Europe after Barking Riverside Limited, a joint venture between London & Quadrant (L&Q) and the Mayor of London, selected Envac to handle the waste of almost 10,000 homes at Barking Riverside London.

Forward-thinking Finland has demonstrated its flair for innovation by awarding Envac, the global pioneer of automated waste collection systems (AWCS), with contracts to install its system within four hospitals across the country.

Envac’s first ever WasteSmart system, which combines Envac’s automated waste collection system (AWCS) with optical sorting technology from its subsidiary, Envac Optibag AB, has been unveiled as part of GrowSmarter – an EU-funded initiative that has brought together cities and industry to showcase 12 ‘smart city’ solutions in energy, infrastructure and transport.

Gangnam-Gu, Seoul’s third largest district, has chosen automated waste collection system (AWCS) pioneers Envac to install an underground system that will span 399,741 sq. m on completion and include a subterranean pipe network over 15 miles long.

The Sírio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, has inaugurated the first pneumatic waste collection system in a Latin American hospital. The system includes two separate pipe networks, one in which the soiled hospital linen is transported and a second one for the non-infectious solid waste.

New updates to Spain’s building regulations are expected to make automated waste collection systems (AWCS) more appealing to developers and accelerate the rollout of the technology in densely populated towns and cities throughout the country.

Envac AB, the world’s pioneer of automated waste collection, has become one of the key organisations involved in the €25m GrowSmarter initiative, which will bring together cities and industry to showcase 12 ‘smart city’ solutions in energy, infrastructure and transport.