The Automated Vacuum Collection (AVAC) system, also called "pneumatic refuse collection", transports waste at high speeds through underground tunnels to a building where it is compacted, sealed in containers and then carted away.

Few such systems exist in the world, however Disney World and Roosevelt Island utilise this technology. Cinderella Castle, at the center of the Magic Kingdom, is Walt Disney World Resorts most recognizable icon Introduction Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, USA is home to four theme parks, three water parks, several resort hotels and golf courses... Main Street on Roosevelt Island Roosevelt Island, formerly known as Welfare Island, is a narrow island in the East River of New York City. ...

A system is planned to be installed in the new Jätkäsaari residential neighbourhood in Helsinki. All housing cooperatives and other apartment buildings are obliged to join the network. The system envisioned for Jätkäsaari would help facilitate the separation and recycling of waste. Founded 1550 Country Finland Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Area[1] - Of which land - Rank 185. ... A housing co-operative is a legal entity that owns real estate, one or more residential buildings. ... A red brick apartment block in central London, England, on the north bank of the Thames An apartment building, block of flats or tenement is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US) or flats (UK). ... Waste sorting is the process by which waste is separated into different elements. ... The international recycling symbol. ...

Each building will have 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 would act in a manner similar to 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 combined with the same class of waste. In computer networking and telecommunications, packet switching is a communications paradigm in which packets (messages or fragments of messages) are individually routed between nodes, with no previously established communication path. ...

See also

• Transfer station
• Waste collection
• Waste collection vehicle
• Waste collector

The Hiriya transfer station, largest in the Middle East located at Tel Aviv and mechanical biological treatment facility A transfer station is a building for the temporary deposition of some wastes. ... For the corporation, see Waste Management Incorporated Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal of waste materials, usually ones produced by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local amenity. ... A typical front loader garbage truck in North America A waste collection vehicle (WCV), garbage truck (in North America), or dustcart, or sometimes dustbin wagon (in Britain and other Commonwealth countries), is a truck specially designed to haul waste to landfills and other recycling / disposal facilities. ... Waste collection vehicle operating in Pragues streets A waste collector, also known as: British English Dustman Bin man Dustbin man Refuse collector US English Garbage man Garbage collector Sanitation engineer Trash collector Australian English Garbo is a person employed by a municipality/local authority or by a private company...