Envac’s smart waste collection system transports regular and infectious hospital waste, as well as laundry, through hermetically sealed pipe networks concealed within the hospital’s structure—behind walls, beneath floors, and in utility tunnels.
This eliminates the need to manually transport waste and laundry on trolleys from wards to the waste terminal, reducing the risk of accidents and hospital-acquired infections. The Envac system fosters a more hygienic environment while also lowering operational costs.
Game-changing waste collection for smart hospitals & nursing homes
To further improve sanitary conditions, Envac introduces a new development – a system for handling infectious waste.
Infectious waste is put in special bags which are disposed of in a separate inlet and transported in a standalone system. In the collection station, the system converts the infectious waste into non-hazardous waste, which can be mixed with other waste or remain in a separate container. To maintain sanitary conditions, this system is disinfected automatically at regular intervals.
Reduction in Infection Spread
With the Envac waste collection system, the physical contact between people and contaminated materials is minimized during the collection of waste, laundry, and infectious hospital waste. Instead of being transported on trolleys through corridors and lifts, the waste is moved through separate, sealed pipe systems. This ensures a safer environment for patients, staff, and visitors.
The closed system and touch-free disposal points also significantly reduce the risk of infection spread and accidents.
One System - Multiple Flows
Envac’s hospital system differs from the traditional waste collection system. It manages the safe and clean disposal of laundry, waste, recyclables, and infectious hospital waste through separate pipes within a single system. Touchless technology with sensors identifies the type of waste and allows access without physical contact, reducing infection spread.
This system eliminates the need to transport laundry on trolleys outside the ward, minimising the spread of bacteria and reducing operational costs.
Cost Efficient
Reducing manual handling of laundry and waste is not only beneficial from a health perspective, but it is also cost-efficient. The automatic transportation of our pneumatic waste collection reduces the need for a large workforce of orderlies and hospital attendants to transport and sort laundry and waste. Less waste transportation with carts in corridors and culverts also reduces the wear and tear of the hospital building which means less maintenance cost.
Our automated waste collection system is integrated in the walls, floors, and culverts of the hospital building and removes the need to transport laundry in trolleys or carts, minimizing the spread of germs and bacteria as well as reducing operational cost.
Sustainability and hospital image
For any hospital, patient and staff welfare is crucial, but hospitals also can play their part in a more sustainable future. The Envac system can be designed to handle several waste fractions within the hospital.
Our system also removes the unsightly manual transport of waste and laundry throughout the hospital, providing patients and visitors with a better experience of the hospital. An eco-friendly hospital environment with state of the art technology attracts both top health care professionals and patients.
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The Limburg Optimo Sorting Facility was launched in 2022 and services 32 municipalities, enabling smarter sorting for more than 300 000 households. The facility sorts 5 different fractions: food waste, garden waste, textile waste, residual waste and plastic/metal packaging. The facility is built to be flexible and has the option to add 2 more fractions in the future.
At Doha’s state-of-the-art Hamad International Airport, there are five pneumatic waste collection systems that gather kitchen waste from Qatar Airlines Flight Catering, and six systems that collect mixed waste generated within the terminal building. Envac designed, built, operates, and maintains all eleven systems.
Once an industrial waterfront on the outskirts of central Stockholm, Hammarby Sjöstad has undergone a remarkable transformation into one of the world’s most ambitious sustainable urban developments. What was once a polluted, underutilised site is now a thriving, eco-friendly neighbourhood designed with the future in mind.
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High performance, fast collection, sealed transportation from ward to waste collection terminal, 24/7 availability and adaptable to any volumes. The closed system and touch-free waste inlets minimize the spread of infections, droplet transmission and accidents.
When waste and soiled linen is collected with an Envac system (aka AWCS/PWCS) the physical contact between human and dirty material is kept to a minimum.
The risk of waste related strain injuries, cut wounds, accidents and infection is close to eliminated.
Elevators can be used for transportation of patients, staff and visitors – not for carts with waste bags.
If hospitals can reduce the wear and tear attributable to transporting waste materials in vehicles and carts, it also means they can reduce their maintenance costs. By pneumatically transporting waste and soiled linen in sealed pipes, hospitals can also reduce their staff costs, too.
