Envac’s first ever WasteSmart system, which combines Envac’s automated waste collection system (AWCS) with optical sorting technology from its subsidiary, Envac Optibag AB, has been unveiled as part of GrowSmarter – an EU-funded initiative that has brought together cities and industry to showcase 12 ‘smart city’ solutions in energy, infrastructure and transport.

Gangnam-Gu, Seoul’s third largest district, has chosen automated waste collection system (AWCS) pioneers Envac to install an underground system that will span 399,741 sq. m on completion and include a subterranean pipe network over 15 miles long.

The Sírio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, has inaugurated the first pneumatic waste collection system in a Latin American hospital. The system includes two separate pipe networks, one in which the soiled hospital linen is transported and a second one for the non-infectious solid waste.

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.

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.