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\"ENVAC<\/a><\/p>\n

The automated waste collection system sucks away trash, recyclables and organic waste through underground pipes with a 90 km per hour sucking power. Image from Envac website.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

There aren’t going to be any dump trucks blocking up\u00a0the streets in Montreal’s new Quartier des Spectacles. Last Wednesday, the City approved<\/a> a proposition to replace public trash cans with receptacles for garbage, recyclables and compostables, all hooked up to an vacuum-powered collection system. Waste placed in each receptacle would be sucked into a network of underground tubes and transported to a central processing location (possibly located in Place Desjardins<\/em>).<\/p>\n

At first glance, this system may seem unduly costly and invasive, not to mention energy intensive. But since the streets in the QDS are already slotted to be ripped up in order\u00a0to replace ageing sewers, aqueducts and power-lines, throwing in the waste-collection system will only cost an additional $8.2 million. Under the new system, garbage collection in the neighborhood would rely on electricity rather than fossil fuels, which may not be a bad idea given the cost and environmental impacts of burning fuel.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, the new garbage collection system would also apply to residents and businesses located in the Quartier des Spectacles. For instance, the restaurants in Place Desjardins<\/em> would be able to be compost food scraps, saving several hundred tons of waste from landfills each year.<\/p>\n

Although Montreal is behind cities like Toronto who offer composting for household waste, this initiative would be the first in North America to offer composting on the public domain and for businesses.<\/p>\n

ENVAC<\/a>, the European company that engineers these systems worldwide, built their first trash-vacuuming system in Stockholm in 1961 and it is still in operation (it has an expected lifespan of about 50 years, although that is probably standard for sewers and other infrastructure).<\/p>\n

Teaching\u00a0the hoards of drunken festival-goers and clueless tourists to sort\u00a0trash from recyclables and organic waste\u00a0is a challenge for the future…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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