Story
The waste collection industry is developing rapidly, with citizens taking ever more responsibility for sorting and recycling the refuse they produce.
Three years ago, Sønderborg municipality introduced a new refuse collection system with household refuse sorted into nine categories. This enables a much higher proportion of households' refuse to be recycled.
New refuse collection trucks were needed to implement such a complicated sorting system. Moreover, Sønderborg municipality pledged to reduce CO
2 emissions significantly. Therefore, it announced a tender for 14 new refuse tr
ucks in 2019. Ten of them
were to run on biogas
, and the compaction of the waste in those trucks
was supposed
to be electric-driven.
Challenge
Urbaser, an international waste management company, won the tender and became responsible for the daily operation of the new CO
2 -friendly refuse collection fleet. During the tender process, Urbaser was looking for a reliable partner who could provide a suitable solution to power the refuse compactor with electricity.
