Dive summary:
- Vogel Disposal of Mars, Pa. has opened its first CNG fueling station with plans to open a second station about 40 miles away in upcoming years.
- Vogel has 70 waste trucks and plans to faze them out for CNG trucks at the rate of 10 per year.
- In another project, Vogel hopes to capture gas from their landfills and use it to power their vehicles.
From the article:
The company also has a long-range plan to construct another fueling station at a different company location about 40 miles from its Mars facility.
Through a different project, Vogel Disposal is capturing landfill gas that is processed and sent into a local utility pipeline. The company would like to close the loop one day and use that landfill gas to fuel its own vehicles directly.
"We're generating about 8,000 diesel gallon equivalent per day, and our plan is to eventually fuel our trucks with our own natural gas," Vogel said in the statement. ...
