Picking up garbage can be a dirty business. But for one company in the Carolinas, their mission is to keep it clean by going green.
This sanitation truck in Western North Carolina carries dirty garbage, but it burns clean fuel.
“In probably in 10 or 15 years, everyone is going to be using it.”
“We're the only garbage company in North Carolina and South Carolina that's using natural gas.”
George Geisler, owner of All Bright Sanitation in Columbus North Carolina, wants to dump the dirty diesel for the clean natural.
“We're going to try and replace 100,000 gallons of diesel with natural gas by the end of the year.”
Four of these large front loader garbage trucks are now run on clean burning natural gas.
“That’s the equivalent to 87 gallons of diesel. It's about 12,000 cubic feet of natural gas.”
His two goals are to make his company cleaner and his wallet leaner.
“The other advantage is you are totally avoiding the price fluctuations with diesel.”
George also likes the fact that natural gas is made in America, keeping the money he spends on fuel in the U.S.
“There's nobody in the Middle East that’s going to turn off something and we'll be out of it. I mean this is...our own stuff,” explains Geisler.
With natural gas, George is raising the bar on his carbon footprint.
“As far as fossil fuels go, this is as clean as clean can be."
All Bright Sanitation covers the Upstate and Western North Carolina with the clean burning dump trucks. They hope to have their entire fleet converted to natural gas in the next few years.
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