Alcorcón, MD

Alcorcón, MD created an "Escape Street" recycling awareness and citizen engagement event

Alcorcón City Council's Empresa de Servicios Municipales de Alcorcón (EMASA) partnered with the local company Escape Room Materia Gris to create the "Escape Street" recycling awareness event. The game was organized in the same format as an escape room but was deployed in the city's public plaza. Participants used their mobile phones to help them defeat the fictional villain TRASHMAN before he accomplished evil plot to bury the world under mountains of garbage and pollution.

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Alcorcón, MD

Spain

Alcorcón, MD is implementing a bilateral automatic loading system for its waste collection fleet

Alcorcón City Council's Empresa de Servicios Municipales de Alcorcón (EMASA) is implementing a bilateral automatic loading system for its fleet of waste collection vehicles. The new system completely automates the collection process to increase efficiency and reduces the number of personnel required for each route to only one operator. This upgrade will allow personnel to dedicate their time to other tasks, extend the lifetime of the containers, and reduce carbon emissions.

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Alcorcón, MD

Spain