INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
International Climate Development Institute is a non-profit organization that focuses on climate change, human rights, intergenerational justice, and developing rights, and actively participates in international activities. Inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ICDI actively implement the SDG13 “Climate Action”. The core belief of the organization is the concern for climate change and the right to human development; that is, when we talk about the adjustment and transformation that human beings need in the face of climate change, developing rights are important as well. With professional knowledge in climate governance, the organization provides assistance of capacity building, energy transformation, and development of adaptation strategies to disadvantaged groups to help them move towards a sustainable life with climate resilience.
Automated Waste Collection System - Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea
Solution Description
A regulation of installing Automated Waste Collection System during a new city development in metropolitan area of Seoul has come into force. Most cities have been well facilitated with Automated Waste Collection System to meet the demand for the sustainable city development. All refuse chutes are linked by underground pipes and carried by vacuum suction to a central collection station. The collection station houses on advanced control system that sends the various fractions to the right container.
Underground waste management system has increasingly become an integrated part of urban infrastructure in line with electricity, water supply and sewage. Automated Waste Collection System reduces manpower as it automates the entire waste collection process and it also improves urban living environment as it eliminates foul odors and waste spillage during the waste collection, which promotes hygienic condition and enhances ambience of estate.