Waste Brief:
- Waste Management provided Hillsborough County in Florida with 22 new sanitation vehicles that run on compressed natural gas (CNG).
- The $400,000 automated trucks all feature front-loaded robotic arms.
- The company is using 2,400 CNG trucks in its fleet, with 170 of them in Florida.
Waste Insight:
The county is eager to reduce the emissions that older trucks emitted and each new truck will reduce carbon monoxide by 75%, carbon dioxide by 25% and reduce air particulates by up to 86%. Greenhouse emissions are reduced by 22 metric tons for every truck on the road that uses natural gas instead of diesel.
