90%
of the world’s waste is collected at the wrong time
Too late
Overflowing containers lead to illegal dumping following additional cleaning and collection costs
Too early
Containers are empty at the time of pickup wasting time, resources and money
Case Studies
San Francisco has outsourced the servicing of the bins to Recology, that provides the city with a service level commitment of 2 hours. Through the use of the Nordsense system and the Open311 infrastructure.
Project findings
80%
decrease in overflowing trash cans
66%
decrease in street cleaning service requests
64%
decrease in illegal dumping
Source: The San Francisco Examiner. www.sfexaminer.com
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In the beginning of 2016, the first 100 Nordsense Pods were installed in street bins in different areas of the city with varying activity levels. The installation was done to build a baseline on the waste service optimization potential.
It quickly became evident that in order to achieve the waste collection efficiency for the city, the drivers needed to empty bins based on demand, with dynamic addition of the bins to the collection schedules.
Project findings
40%
of emptied bins contain less than 25% of waste capacity
90%
of bins are not full, when they are emptied
Source: Smarte investeringer i kernevelfærden. www.kk.dk
