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Sunshine Coast to replace rubbish trucks with automated garbage disposal system
A Queensland council says it is a step closer to replacing large garbage trucks with a revolutionary vacuum system that will suck dirty waste underground.
The automated rubbish disposal system is being constructed in Maroochydore, on the Sunshine Coast, where a pipe network stretching more than 6km has been laid.
The project was first announced in 2016 by Swedish company Envac, which has constructed a network of technological bin collection vacuums in cities across Europe, Asia and the United Kingdom.
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