Martin Hellsten

The City of Bergen has won the National Energy Globe Award 2017 for its decision to install Envac, the global pioneer of automated waste collection, within its historical city centre.

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.

Envac’s waste collection station in the district of Stora Ursvik, just north of Stockholm, has become the first industrial building in Sweden to secure BREAAM certification after it received the coveted ‘Excellent’ rating – the second highest accolade in BREEAM’s programme.

Norway’s second largest city, Bergen, will become home to the world’s largest automated vacuum waste collection system following a competitive tender process that saw Envac win the contract to install its technology in a deal worth €20m (183m NOK).

Australia will launch its first underground waste collection system in Sunshine Coast Council, the country’s fifth largest municipality, as part of a major redevelopment programme that will deliver some of the nation’s most sustainable building design and create over 30,000 jobs by 2040.

Traditional methods of waste collection could soon become a thing of the past in Spain after a survey revealed that 86.1 per cent of people preferred using Envac, an underground automated vacuum waste collection system, than relying on manual collection methods using heavily polluting waste collection vehicles.

Envac, the global pioneer of underground automated waste collection, has installed the world’s first integrated automated waste and recyclable segregation plant in the Gujarat International Finance & Tec-City (GIFT City) – a landmark site covering 886 acres in Gandhinagar, India.

Envac, the global pioneer of underground automated vacuum waste collection, has become an official partner in the EU-funded GrowSmarter project. The five-year project, which forms part of the Horizon 2020 programme, is to be coordinated by the City of Stockholm and aims to help make Europe more sustainable and environmentally ‘smarter’.

Envac, proud system supplier, is arranging the inauguration ceremony at Strömkajen on Wednesday morning at 10.15 AM, on the quay in front of the Grand Hotel at Blasieholmen in Stockholm.

The Sweden+Korea Green Transition Alliance and its member companies invited a delegation of South Korean journalists to Sweden to learn more about Swedish sustainability solutions that can support South Korea to become a carbon-neutral society by 2050.