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.

Envac has appointed Joakim Karlsson as CEO & President of Envac Group to replace Claes Scheibe. The change is effective as of May 5, 2016.

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’.