By installing just 144 of the waste compacting CleanCUBEs, we managed to replace over 400 traditional bins. Waste collection costs have gone down by 86% and public areas are cleaner than ever. The waste collection workers find using the monitoring system to be convenient, and it allows them to provide better service much more efficiently. Everyone wins!
Office of Campus Facility Management, Korea University
Cleaning up campuses the green and smart way. Four of the top universities in Korea: Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University, and Dongguk University wanted a smart waste management solution that would allow them to keep campuses clean while keeping costs down. Traditional bins often overflow with waste, which leads to littering on school property but schools couldn’t afford to increase the frequency of waste collections.
The universities came to Ecube Labs because the waste compaction that the Clean Cube provides allows it to increase bin capacity five to eight times. Even with fewer bins, waste overflow could be prevented, leading to cleaner campuses for both students and visitors.
Additionally, Clean Cube smart bins are designed to promote environmental awareness. With clear signs and specially-fabricated bin openings that encourage single-stream recycling, Clean Cubes allow universities to achieve higher recycling diversion rates.
Due to the size of school campuses, traditional bins were spread out across the campuses. Not knowing how full these bins were meant that waste collection operators had to collect all of the bins on an arbitrarily fixed schedule.
Clean City Networks (CCN) provided immense value by providing waste operators a way to monitor the status and fill-level of the smart bins throughout the day, allowing them to schedule their collections for only the bins that required collection.
Dean of the United Campus Sustainability Office, Kim Jang Hee, praised the effectiveness of the Clean Cubes, saying that “Ecube Labs uses smart technology to allow university campuses to more efficiently provide waste collection services. Their solutions not only save universities money by reducing required labor, time, and fuel, but it also ensures cleaner public areas and encourages people to recycle.”
