Some of Denver’s garbage and recycling trucks will soon be a little greener... at least on the inside.
The Republic Services Denver Metro Division plans to convert their 130-vehicle fleet of trucks from burning diesel to compressed natural gas.
With so many heavy-duty vehicles logging thousands of miles on a daily basis, company officials say the conversion to CNG will have a significant impact on the region’s air quality.
“Every individual passenger car that would convert to a cleaner-burning fuel will make a difference,” says Republic Services’ municipal sales manager Mark Petrovich. “But when you take something that puts approximately 18,000 miles a day on the roads here, and convert – that puts a bigger dent in the greenhouse gas emissions.”
And Petrovich says the conversion can help boost job creation efforts, with abundant domestic supplies of natural gas -- much of it in Colorado. The company plans to have Denver’s conversion completed by 2013.