Dive Summary:
- Waste Pro USA unveils a new $15 million compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in Ft. Pierce, Florida
- The company also rolled out 20 new CNG MAC trucks. It plans to have 70 CNG vehicles in its fleet over the next few years.
- Florida based Waste Pro has 1.5 million residential and 35,000 business customers in the Southeast U.S.
From the article:
Compressed natural gas is an alternative fuel that proponents hope is the way of the future.
Now, with new $300,000 MAC trucks and a new CNG fueling station, garbage collection company Waste Pro is cleaning up more than just your household trash. It's also helping to keep clean the air you breathe.
Art Hyatt, Waste Pro driver, said switching to new compressed natural gas garbage trucks is a step up for the environment, and for workers.
"We spend more time in our trucks than our homes, at times," Hyatt said. "You don't want to breathe in more stuff than you have to. With this newer system that we have now, we don't breathe in gasses at all."
