The responsibility and future lie in the hands of governments, companies, customers, and consumers. Recycling is imperative to prevent further adverse impact on the environment; small initiatives being instrumental for giant steps towards a sustainable environment.
Bucher Municipal are the front runners of that journey, with fully-continuous water recycling systems, automatic fuel-saving technology, and efficient and easy to maintain sewer cleaning units, developed for more than 30 years. More specifically, we are referring to our most significant innovation; the RECycler® units, automatically and continuously separating water from sludge to subsequently use the cleaned water to clean the sewers. But how well does the RECycler® unit perform through external testing?
Wessuc Inc., a Canadian-based company providing a wide range of services for the public sector, has extensive experience managing organic waste and providing clean-out and inspection services for municipalities. Wessuc has been testing two Bucher RECycler® units from June 18th – November 14th, 2018. The units were operational for 100 days, averagely 11 hours per day. With the higher pressure in the LDS and the lower pressure used in the re-inspection, the RECycler® trucks ran at an average of 95 US gallons/min. With two trucks, Wessuc was pumping 190 US gallons per min. The results of the testing were quite impressive.
The RECycler® units were instrumental in not only production but also savings to the City. By Wessuc using the Bucher recycling technology, the City of Winnipeg saved a total of $211,134.00 in water costs and disposal of the water into the sewers. On top of this, Wessuc only added 1,800 m3 of water to the City of Winnipeg’s wastewater system, recycling 45,700 m3, water that was already in the system, headed for the Wastewater treatment plant.
A report done by the University of Akron, in cooperation with the Ohio Department of Transportation, endorsed the testing results accomplished by Wessuc. Among others, the report compares the Bucher RECycler® with vacuum jet trucks (VJT), which is also referred to as a combination truck. While the VJT truck is a versatile machine, its inability to reuse water limits its efficiency due to numerous trips to refill water. Comparing this to a RECycler® unit, no refill is needed. The report concludes that the RECycler® unit contributes to a production rate increase of 55 % compared to a traditional VJT truck when measuring the workforce efficiency.
When looking at the Capital Costs, the Bucher RECycler® comes at a price of $595,000 where the VJT has a price of $360,000 - a cost difference of $235,000. But while those costs are higher, the strength of the RECycler® unit is its savings in operational costs, also based on the increased productivity. This, allowing more sewers to be cleaned in an eight-hour shift. It basically means that the RECycler® unit can do the same work as a VJT but in 51 fewer days, ensuring considerable savings in labor costs. Looking at the Annual Operational Costs, the average per year for a RECycler® is $144,330, which is nearly $85,000 in savings compared to a traditional VJT truck. These cost savings make up for the higher annual capital and maintenance costs.
These different tests support the fact that the Bucher RECycler® units are one of the most powerful units on the market, equipped with many technologies that increase efficiency significantly and bringing profit at the bottom-line. The RECycler® unit has been used in Europe for decades, making it one of the best-selling units on the market.
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