“I don’t make any noise. I’m a fifteen ton but I drive electric. This will make happy the rippers who work without having infernal machinery a few centimeters from their ears and the local residents who, when the dump trucks pass, are often in the arms of Morpheus.
The Ccpoh is banking on green energy. Three new trucks are operational from this month of December. One is 100% electric, the other two in green energy. They run on rapeseed oil.
“A choice and an investment accordingly, since for an electric truck, you need to count on a little more than 300,000 euros,” says Thierry Aubert, regional director of the Sepur company.
“The idea simply came from a boss, who, seeing from his office, his trucks starting in a cloud of smoke, said to himself that this could not go on any longer,” confides the regional director.
How can you be a company that works for the environment and have such a poor carbon footprint? From there to think about clean energies, we needed partners who believed in it, like, therefore, the Community of Communes of the country of Oise and Halatte.
The task was entrusted to Philippe Kellner, vice-president of the Ccpoh, in charge of the environment and sustainable development, to present to the elected officials who made the trip, this new equipment which will crisscross the streets and roads of the member municipalities. “We only see advantages in these new vehicles. Green, carbon-free energy and a particularly quiet electric vehicle with comfort of use for staff since it is fully automated and significant noise comfort,” continues Philippe Kellner.
An electric range of 120km
Residents will easily be able to discover these trucks in their street since they are plastered with direct messages such as “I drive on biofuel” or “I drive on electricity”.
“For the electric vehicle, there is incomparable comfort of use,” explains one of the drivers. The ease of use is disconcerting and we work in unusual silence. You have to get used to it at the beginning,” explains the employee.
The electric truck has a range of just over 120 km. This is more than enough since a tour totals between 60 and 80 km maximum. The optimal battery life is eight years.
Green waste: 240 liter bins
From April 2025, the date when green waste collections will resume, residents of municipalities that are members of the Ccpoh will have a new bin in their garden. Alongside the one intended for household waste and the well-known yellow bin mainly dedicated to packaging, you will have to take into account a pretty 240 liter bin, with a green lid and which will be mainly dedicated to green waste. The idea is to replace those good old plastic bags which are causing more and more problems. Ecologically initially, since they age very poorly, crack, fly away, fall into pieces. They are also causes of hardship for the rippers. Indeed, the bags are often very heavy, difficult to grip and carry at arm’s length. At the end of the tour, the shifters are often exhausted by the scale of the task. In short, get rid of this old “anti-eco” plastic bag and put in place sorting bins which apparently only have advantages.
“They are easy to use, both for users and for scrapers. They will be specially designed with a grid allowing water to pass through to prevent it from stagnating and therefore adding weight,” emphasizes Philippe Kellner. To order your bin, which will be delivered to your home from 2025, nothing could be simpler. On the Ccpoh website, it is possible to fill out a request form. Those who are not on the Internet will have a leaflet with information from the Ccpoh in the mailbox.
“It represents a gamble, a budget too, but we think of everyone. On the one hand, facilitating collection and therefore making life easier for agents, but also for local residents, who are increasingly complaining about these plastic bags. This baccalaureate is indeed a solution,” explains Philippe Kellner.
Obviously, everyone is aware that everything will not be perfect from the first collections, but the idea is also to target difficulties upstream. Roads and alleys impassable by collection vehicles, for example. The solution could come from the creation of collection points.
The timing is tight, since each household with a green space is likely to have a bin. A challenge that intercommunity agents are ready to take on.
A campaign on sorting
At the same time, an awareness campaign is launched on sorting. “It’s impressive to see the number of sorting errors that can still exist. This is particularly true in the yellow bins which are essentially reserved for packaging, for all packaging, but only for packaging.
We still see far too much household waste, broken toys, objects of all kinds, packaging itself wrapped in garbage bags… Well, it’s a shame, but the bag is pushed back to the center of valorization,” says the regional manager. We need to raise even more awareness, hence this new campaign, particularly posters.
To respond to these difficulties, the trucks will be equipped with cameras and thanks to AI, artificial intelligence, it will be possible to determine which are the blatant sorting errors.
“The idea is not to sanction, but above all to raise awareness among users. Waste collection represents a real cost for citizens and as the objective remains not to increase the bill, we must therefore have selective sorting, as fine as possible,” explain the regional director Sepur and Philippe Kellner, vice-president of the Ccpoh.
Communication work which will be at the heart of the negotiations of the always difficult equation for calculating the household waste removal tax.
