Dive Brief:

• Denver, Colorado has announced it will use compressed natural gas (CNG) to operate its sanitation and recycling trucks.
• The city has acquired 19 CNG trucks, and anticipates having 40 additional CNG trucks in its fleet by the end of this year. That would mean that 40 percent of Denver's fleet would be CNG.
• The city opened a new fueling station this week. The station has 70 pumps and cost $2.5 million. The station is only being used for municipal vehicles, and is not available to the public.

Dive Insight:

The Department of Environmental Health provided some funding to pay for the construction of the station through a loan extended to the city, while the Public Works Fleet Management division  paid for the remainder of the project. Many waste management companies such as Waste Management, Republic Services, and various towns across the country have been converting their fleets to CNG, which is a better environmental and cost-effective choice. Denver has seven other CNG stations that are open to the community.