Sustainability
Report 2020
Meny
Historic
city gets modern waste collection system
Together with its customer BIR Nett AS, Envac is installing an pneumatic waste collection system in the historic Norwegian city of Bergen – that helps to preserve urban heritage and promotes sustainability.
The City of Bergen won the National Energy Globe Award 2017 for its Envac project, and more recently, the International Project of the Year Award at the World Congress on Municipal Engineering in Kansas, USA. Key benefits for residents and local businesses include a more pleasant urban environment with less traffic, vehicle emissions and vermin.
“In using Envac, we have future-proofed the City of Bergen and made it a more resilient, sustainable and innovative place to live and work,” Terje Strøm, Managing Director at BIR Nett AS.
“Our priority is to deliver a Bergen that ensures a greener, more pleasant and more hygienic living environment - not only for current residents but also for our children and our grandchildren”
By the end of 2020, around 9,000 households and businesses were connected to the system that has a capacity of around 9 tonnes/day. When complete, the 7,500 metre pipe network will collect the waste from 30,000 households multiple times each day through 1,200 waste inlets conveniently located throughout the city. The automated waste collection system collects four waste fractions – waste, paper, plastics and cardboard.
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