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Waste inlet Bergen , Norway and habitable environments .
As sustainable living in attractive cities increasingly involves replacing busy roads with pedestrian zones , parks and cycle routes , waste collection now needs to be as unobtrusive as possible .
Technology is the gateway to a circular future Envac is an automated waste collection system that uses an underground pipe network to suck waste from strategically placed inlets to a central waste collection station .
Waste inlets are placed at various points throughout the city or site and a fan system sucks the waste through tubes to a central waste station at high speed and over distances as long as 2km . When full the containers at the collection station are hoisted onto refuse vehicles and taken away by the local council or waste collection contractor for treatment .
Recent advancements to the system mean that the waste can be directly ‘ piped ’ in to facilities that use it to generate energy , such as in Korea where Envac has two installations converting the waste directly into electricity . Similarly ,
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