Category: Waste
- Problem: Waste collection can be inefficient, expensive, noisy, polluting, and hard on roads and vehicles.
- Summary: http://www.enevo.com
- Comprehensive logistics technology that saves time, money, and is environmentally beneficial.
- Uses wireless sensors to measure and forecast how full waste receptacles are and uses that information to create smart collection plans with the best schedules and routes.
- Direct cost-savings can be up to 50%.
- “Until now collecting waste has been done using static routes and schedules where containers are collected every day or week regardless of if they are full or not.”
- Reduces costs, emissions, road wear, vehicle wear, noise pollution and work hours.
- Stakeholders
- Enevo and its investors
- City planners
- City government
- Residents
- Deployment
- Incentivize waste management companies to use the service
- Design waste management contracts with Enevo
- Scale up deployment
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This is cool! It sounds like it could quickly apply to public trash recepticals on the street, but I wonder if there is a way to use this to solve curb collection of household trash.
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This is a great technology that can benefit communities who have stringent policies on waste diversion and those who are just starting out.
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