Comments on: Waste Management Could Spend Billions Of Dollars On Green Initiatives

By: Wes Muir, Director of Corporate Communications, Waste Management Inc.

Wes Muir, Director of Corporate Communications, Waste Management Inc. — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:33:05 +0000

It is important to note that our plan is to reduce fleet emissions and increase fuel efficiency by 15 percent respectively. This is over a period of 10 years and will be accomplished by 2020.

Achieving that result assumes up to 30 percent emissions reductions and increased fuel efficiencies at that level when our entire fleet is fully converted to a new technology. In the interim we are continuously working on route optimization to reduce our travel times and have nearly 1300 trucks fueled by natural gas or retrofitted with special pollution control equipment. We’re also experimenting with the use of biodiesel for our fleet across the country as well as evaluating a wide range of technologies and services such as converting landfill gas from our landfills into synthetic diesel for our fleet.

By: Dawn Fenton

Dawn Fenton — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:22:08 +0000

I hope part of Waste Management’s plan includes the addition of retrofit technology for their vehicles. Retrofitting diesel vehicles can help reduce emissions anywhere from 25-90%.

By: Ken Neuhauser

Ken Neuhauser — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:25:00 +0000

Reducing emissions by 15% seems a very modest goal. With the scale of buying power represented by Waste Management, why not ask vehicle suppliers to provide methane gas powered vehicles so that WM could produce its own fuel? WM is in a unique position to move the supply chain and to advance the concept of waste-as-food.