By Greentech Lead America: Waste Management of Illinois has opened its new compressed
natural gas fueling facility in Stickney, Ill. The facility will fuel company’s
recycling collection CNG trucks operating in Chicago area.
According to a news report in truckinginfo.com , the
Stickney facility is Waste Management’s second in the Chicago area and it is
the largest commercial CNG fueling
facility in Illinois. Its Wheeling CNG site opened last May to serve
Chicago’s northern suburbs.
The facility has 55 “slow-fuel” stations for the company’s growing
CNG fleet of trucks. The company plans to expand its CNG fleet from 30 CNG
trucks to 80 in the Chicago area by year end. This will make the company
Illinois’ largest commercial CNG refuse truck fleet.
The Waste Management trucks are fueled using a
“slow-fill” procedure to improve efficiency, and they carry
approximately 58 diesel equivalent gallons of CNG. The CNG trucks have a
capacity to carry between 5 and 8 tons of material.
Trucks deployed from the facility are used on recycling
collection routes that serve approximately 90,000 households, Chicago-area
commercial routes and municipal collection routes in western suburbs.
Compressed natural gas is cleaner than gasoline or diesel
fuel and will significantly reduce emissions of air pollutants. Waste
Management targeting to reduce its overall fleet emissions by 15 percent and
increase its fuel efficiency by 15 percent by the year 2020.
The fueling site receives its natural gas from a NICOR
gas main nearby. The site is equipped with dual compressors feeding gas to the
fueling stations and will be operated by PetroCard for Waste Management. The
facility includes a public, easy-access “Clean N’ Green” retail station
that is equipped with four “fast-fuel” pumps that can be used by
individuals, companies or municipalities operating CNG vehicles.
Clean Energy Fuels picks Waste Pro USA to build new CNG fueling
station
In another recent development, Clean Energy Fuels has
signed an agreement with Waste Pro USA, a solid waste collection, recycling and
disposal company, to build, operate and maintain a new CNG fueling station on
Waste Pro property in Fort Pierce, FL.