Amanda Yeates – Sunshine Coast Australia

Stakeholders and visitors increasingly associate Maroochydore’s new CBD with its first-in-Australia underground, automated waste system—Amanda Yeates says it’s become a standout talking point nationally and internationally.
For residents and workers, the reaction is more practical: quieter mornings without truck beepers, fewer heavy vehicles and overflowing bins, and a cleaner, safer streetscape that now feels “normal” in the city centre.

Amanda Yeates explains how Envac’s automated waste collection advances the Sunshine Coast’s sustainability and smart-city goals—showing what a future-ready city centre can look like as the precinct grows to tens of thousands of daily workers.

Amanda Yeates explains why systems like Envac matter as sustainability reporting grows. By helping organisations show direct and indirect impacts across supply chains, Envac supports compliance and reputation—so stakeholders can “do the right thing” and be part of the solution.

Amanda Yeates explains how Envac can support sustainable planning for major events ahead of 2032: with a $2B arena and an Athletes’ Village coming to the Sunshine Coast, scalable automated waste collection handles surging crowds more cleanly than traditional approaches.

Amanda Yeates urges city leaders and developers to visit the successfully operating Envac system at Maroochydore City Centre, ask questions, and lead with courage. Automated waste collection can transform waste management, boost sustainability, and significantly improve community liveability.

Amanda Yeates describes how Envac’s system improves public cleanliness and user experience: sensors alert operators before bins overflow, enabling remote, on-demand vacuum collection. For events and weekends, the result is cleaner streets, fewer pests, and a better city-centre experience.

Amanda Yeates shares how Maroochydore’s Envac project reshaped her view of urban waste: from curiosity to conviction. Seeing the odorless, lab-clean collection facility and the system’s efficiency, she argues automated vacuum waste should play a major role in Australia’s future cities.

Amanda Yeates explains how automated waste collection fits into smart public infrastructure for a transit-oriented Maroochydore: narrower, people-first streets make traditional trucks impractical, so Envac’s system integrates with expanding public transport to support growth, connectivity, and city-centre efficiency.

Amanda Yeates says Envac’s model can scale—from other city centres to new greenfield communities—delivering stronger sustainability and liveability. It takes leadership and bravery, but early Sunshine Coast results show real success and momentum for broader rollout across the country.

Amanda Yeates explains when automated waste collection became central to Maroochydore’s plan: as sustainability and circular-economy goals met transit-oriented design, narrower streets and wider pedestrian/cycle space made trucks impractical—so Envac offered a cleaner, innovative way to move city-centre waste.

Amanda Yeates shares why Envac appealed: it was a proven, internationally deployed alternative to traditional waste collection—already operating at scale (e.g., Korea). Introducing it at Maroochydore City Centre brought Australia’s first system of its kind, offering a reliable, modern solution.

Amanda Yeates explains how Maroochydore’s greenfield status made automated waste collection and circular-economy design easier: with no retrofit constraints, innovation could be built in from day one—enabling Australia-first solutions planned from the earliest planning stages at the city centre.

Amanda Yeates explains what makes Maroochydore City Centre unique: a rare chance to build a greenfield CBD—the largest in Australia—where public infrastructure is designed to enable, not inhibit, economic development and social vibrancy from day one.