, there are close to a thousand systems in operation all over the world - in
China,
South East Asia,
South Korea,
the Middle East,
the United States,
Australia, and Europe. Notable manufacturers include: • Envac Pneumatic Waste Collection System, used in more than 30 countries.
United States In the U.S., this type of system is installed in several places, but the most well known are built by AVAC and located in the
Magic Kingdom in
Disney World,
Orlando, Florida; and
Roosevelt Island in
New York City. The Magic Kingdom uses
special Disney utility corridors. The Roosevelt Island system, serving nearly 10,000 people, is said to be the largest in the
United States and the only system in the U.S. in a residential complex.
Europe Notable examples in Europe include
Copenhagen,
Barcelona,
London, and
Stockholm, and
Leganés and
Barakaldo in
Spain. An automated vacuum collection system called
Rööri started operation in early 2014 in the new
Jätkäsaari residential neighbourhood of
Helsinki,
Finland. All
housing cooperatives and other
apartment buildings were obliged to join the network. Each building has a collection point with up to five wastebins or tubes, each for different types of waste and with the capacity to store several parcels of waste. The underground tube network acts like a
packet switched telecommunication network, transporting one kind of waste at a time. Once an input bin is filled, or capacity is available, it is transferred to the central collection site and combined with the same class of waste. Also in
Finland, in the suburb of
Vuores in the city of
Tampere, a vacuum collection system was included in a new suburban development planned for 13,000 inhabitants. It has a total of 124 collection points, 368 waste inlets, and 13 km of pipe. The system's daily collection capacity for
dry waste,
biowaste, paper, and recyclable cardboard comes to a combined total of 13 tonnes, and it became operational in 2012. In
Bergen, Norway, a system covers most of the city center. In a
techno-economic analysis conducted by the
Ministry of Environmental Protection, it was found that the cost of intra-urban treating in pneumatic collection in neighborhoods with multiple units and under funding
contractors is 25% lower in comparison to conventional methods, and this is without internalizing the external benefits arising from it (value of time and pollution). It was also found that for neighborhoods with higher buildings (with the same number of housing units), the cost of a pneumatic system was even cheaper (at least approximately 20%) In 2006,
Yavne municipality issued a tender for the establishment of a pneumatic evacuation of household waste for the residential project "Green Neighborhood" In September 2012, the system began operating in residential use. Now there are also around 30 waste collection points in public areas - parks, schools and the streets. In May 2012,
Ra'anana municipality approved the residential project "Neve Zemer" which is planned to include around 3,550 housing units in around 235 buildings with a pneumatic evacuation system of household waste.
Bat Yam municipality published in 2017 a tender for planning, construction, and operation of pneumatic evacuation system for 5,000 residential neighborhood units (approximately 60 high-rise buildings) and 2,000 hotel rooms. In 2009,
Tel Aviv municipality's head of the city's construction and infrastructure manager, Dr. Benny Maor, said the city planned to install a pneumatic evacuation system in planned northwestern neighborhoods. In 2013, the municipality requested the preparation of a plan for a pneumatic evacuation system as a condition for a building permit in part of a development plan of 11,446 square meters land plots located in
Rothschild Boulevard and Ahad Ha'am streets.
Australia In 2020, the first system in Australia became operational in
Maroochydore,
Queensland. The system was installed as part of the city center development project - the largest greenfield
central business district development in the country. ==Planned systems==