Plans for the UK’s first fully electric refuse fleet have been revealed as Veolia has signed a new tech-driven City of London waste contract.
The City of London Corporation has awarded the pioneering new waste collection service, street cleansing and ancillary services contract – which got going on Saturday April 6.
As part of the contract, the City Corporation aims to become the first authority in the UK to run a fully electric fleet of Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs).
Veolia’s RCVs will be equipped with 360-degree cameras and audible warning reversal systems to improve safety.
The vehicles will use on-board weighing equipment to digitally record bin weights at residential properties, enabling recycling performance to be efficiently calculated. And street cleaners will carry hand-held devices for on-the-go reporting and job completion.
All vehicles will be digitally tracked to monitor and auto-allocate cleansing tasks dependant on geographical location and capacity.
The contract will deliver 74 solar auto-compacting BigBelly bins which send notifications to collection crews when they are full, allowing more waste to be collected.
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