As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes on the 1st of June, 2020, the City of Zagreb presented contactless smart containers for waste management at European Square (Europski trg) on Tuesday. The products are made by a Croatian company called Eco Mobile, an IT company specialised in the development, production and implementation of advanced information and communication solutions to support processes in waste management.
What this Croatian company has designed is a ”green island” that contains smart bins for paper, plastic, metal packaging and glass, and separate containers for small mixed municipal waste. The system uses a press to compress and reduce the waste by seven times.
Jure Leko, director of Cistoca, said that what has been made and presented by this innovative Croatian company is a pilot project and that they plan to install more smart bins at different locations around Croatia’s bustling capital city.
“We’re going further in the procurement of these bins, especially for containers for mixed municipal waste, which we’ll set up on the stretch from the Main Station to Ban Josip Jelacic Square. By the way, we currently have to empty our containers six to seven times a day, which requires a greater need for workers and vehicles, and when we install these smart bins, we’ll only need to empty them once a day,” said Leko, adding that the smart bins will also be installed at all tram stations.
Containers for the disposal of waste paper, plastic, metal packaging and glass, as well as separate containers for small mixed municipal waste, including the shredders that reduce the disposed waste by seven times, cost about 37,000 kuna.
“The system is the result of many years of work by local experts from the Croatian company EcoMobile, and the system is fully manufactured in the Republic of Croatia,” said Aleksandar Ivanovic from EcoMobile when presenting the innovative smart bins.
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