Oxford County Public Works is launching a pilot project, with a goal to make the waste collection vehicles more environmentally friendly.
OXFORD COUNTY - Oxford County Public Works is going to make one of their waste collection vehicles a little more environmentally friendly.
It will be modified so it can run on both diesel and compressed natural gas, which should reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 or 15 percent.
Director of Public Works David Simpson says it should also save the county money in the long run.
"Using that co-fuelled approach we anticipate reasonable fuel savings over the operational length of the contract."
Simpson says the conversion should not impact its collection route.
"It would still cover county wide collection services for the most part, excluding Southwest Oxford and Woodstock which have separate collection contracts but in the other five area municipalities it would be active."
The county is spending $35,000 to kick start this pilot project.

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