Carmel City Center To Have Underground Trash System

CARMEL, Ind. -- Taking garbage out will be a thing of the past for owners of businesses and condominiums in Carmel's new city center. They'll only need to toss it in an indoor receptacle and watch the trash disappear.

The new city center will have a $200 million underground garbage system -- only the third one in use in the U.S., 6News' Tanya Spencer reported.

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People in the city center's businesses and residences will place bags of trash into receptacles. The trash will be sucked through underground tubes at close to 45 mph to a location where it will be dealt with.

"This will be like they have a bottomless garbage can that they can just keep throwing stuff in," said Steve Sturtz of the Pedcor City Center Development Co., which is footing the bill for the system. "It never fills up. They never have to get rid of it."

Only Disney World in Florida and Roosevelt Island in New York have similar systems. Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard said the system will benefit the city.

"We're in competition against every other city in the world for jobs, quality of life. Anything we can do to help create a downtown to make Carmel more competitive is good for the people who live here," Brianard said.

The system should be running in two years, Spencer reported.