Cape Verde Goes Clean and Green with New Disposal System

As part of our regular update on technologies and programmes for sustainability in the cash cycle, we report this month on the news that Banco de Cabo Verde has invested in an HKU 4510 from Swiss company Hunkeler Systeme for the secure, clean and energy efficient disposal of banknotes.

The Banco de Cabo Verde (BCV), as the central bank of the island state of Cape Verde, issues the banknotes for the Cape Verde escudos. Unfit banknotes must be regularly removed from circulation and separated from the fit banknotes in a sorting process, which takes place via a 7000 sorter from Cash Processing Soultions (CPS) with an integrated shredder. The shredded material is removed from the process via the compact HKU 4510 suction unit.