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Plan to rid Australian city of rubbish trucks almost ready to suck
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The 70km/h suction whoosh of Australiaâs first underground waste disposal system will replace the clanging and rattling of some rubbish trucks and wheelie bins by June.
Automated underground rubbish system are in place in cities including Stockholm, Seoul, Barcelona, London, Singapore and Beijing, but not in Australia.
An artistâs impression of an underground, vacuum-driven waste collection system being built at Maroochydore.
Credit:Envac Australia.
Over the past five years, a 6.5-kilometre network of underground pipes has been placed under a section of Maroochydore, on Queenslandâs Sunshine Coast, in the first phase of the innovative waste-disposal technology rollout.
The Sunshine Coast system is a lot larger capacity wise but in terms of the technology and physics there s zero difference. A council spokesman said the equipment could only be commissioned by Envac technicians, under an agreement with the company. They said costs associated with the commissioning were included in the agreement. Council s group executive customer engagement and planning services James Ruprai said it was moving closer to having the system switched on, with ENVAC technical experts in the country and out of quarantine. The council statement said it would be Australia s first, hi-tech, underground automated waste collection system for a CBD .