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(Miami-Dade County, FL) -- Miami-Dade County’s Departments of Solid Waste Management and General Services Administration (GSA) are unveiling a fuel-efficient hybrid waste collection vehicle on Earth Day. The vehicle is being pilot tested on two waste collection routes in Miami-Dade County. The unveiling event is taking place on Wednesday, April 22, at 10 a.m., at the Stephen P. Clark Center’s Outdoor Pavilion, 111 NW 1 Street, and marks the official kick-off of a four-week pilot program utilizing hybrid vehicle technology.
The vehicle, which is on loan to the Departments during the pilot program, looks like a traditional automated waste collection vehicle. What makes this truck a hybrid is the unique energy recovery system that uses stored hydraulic energy rather than diesel fuel to power the truck as it makes house-to-house stops for waste collection. Major benefits of the hybrid vehicle include a reduction in diesel fuel consumption and cleaner air emissions.
“Solid Waste Management is the first municipal solid waste agency in the country to be given the opportunity to test this hybrid vehicle in our waste collection operation,” said Department of Solid Waste Management Director Kathleen Woods-Richardson. “We are pleased to work in partnership with GSA’s Fleet Management as we “go green” and explore environmentally-friendly hybrid technology that will enable our waste collection fleet to reduce its use of diesel fuel,” added Woods-Richardson.
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