The City of Sydney has built Australia’s first underground storage system for bins, providing an expensive but effective way to reduce urban clutter and an unsightly mass of waste bins. The new system (installed in Royston Street, Darlinghurst) replaces a cluttered bin bay with an underground storage system.
Known as “Ecopunto”, the Italian system was provided and installed by Parramatta based engineering firm Waste Drive. Underground storage systems have been used in cities around the world as a means of managing urban waste materials in high density areas. The system will see around 22 standard-size 240-litre wheelie bins replaced with large 1,100-litre underground bins.
As the population of Brisbane continues to grow it won’t be long before we see this waste bin system used around the streets of Brisbane.
