The result
Since the system’s inauguration in 2007, Envac has:
- Delivered 100 per cent success by automatically and ‘invisibly’ collecting waste from every source to the collection station each year
- Reduced the manual handling of waste by 85 per cent
- Reduced the cost of waste collection, predominantly attributable to teams of porters manually moving bins from storage rooms to kerbside areas, by 60 per cent, resulting in payback being achieved within 7 years
- Converted space originally designed for bin storage rooms into facilities management offices and bulky waste storage areas
- Reduced the space required for waste storage in buildings by 74 per cent
- Expanded JBR’s waste collection capacity to accommodate its thriving commercial and retail district without requiring any more space or modifications to the existing Envac collection station and pipe network
- Reduced by 90% the number of hours waste collection trucks spend at JBR each day
- Eliminated the storage of waste bins on the side of the road awaiting collection, thus greatly improving amenity
- Eliminated the negative environmental aspects associated with waste collection
