Segregated waste incentives
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WASTE MANAGEMENT M Local authorities can save money and help the environment by collecting household rubbish from segregated bins and recycling it.
This was the incentive for several manufacturers at Torbay's Waste Management show last week, including Norba, whose La Brie six-compartment segregated waste vehicle, based on a Freighter 1718 with dual steer and low kerbside step is in service in Sheffield.
Adur Council has ordered five; Arun, Cardiff and Worthing councils are also looking at the concept. She!yoke, which is also promoting kerb-edge sort and store vehicles, had its own design of recycler waste vehicle on view. Like La Brie, it uses a swingover refuse trough which aligns with up to seven segregated sections.
A hopper lid folds over and internal partitions are hydraulically adjustable.
Dennis offered its Twin-Pack Phoenix system which will separate trade from domestic waste in Kensington and Chelsea.
It uses a vertical bulkhead to form two compartments; one with 3.9m3, the other with 7.4m' which carries 7.0 tonnes of waste in a more traditional way. Lacre has gone a
stage further with a twin-deck system with arms that "read bar codes" on bins and tip on to the top or bottom floor accordingly.
Such systems are easy enough to operate: the main hurdle will be getting the authorities to invest and the public to agree to using the various bins to collect valuable trash.
Collecting refuse from normally inaccessible sites is the forte of Orwak/Octad's 8x8. Fitted with hydraulic compactor, the 3.4m, two-seater unit is powered by a 1.8-litre Ford XLD diesel with hydrostatic drive to each wheel via chains and sprockets.
It carries a tonne, climbs 45° gradients and will run for six hours over rough terrain at speeds up to 20km/h (12.4mph).
Using variable hydraulic flow rates and a twin joystick system it can manage an about-turn on the spot. The high-mobility 8x8 is built at Octad's Poole, Dorset plant and can be equipped for a range of operations. In basic form it costs around Y.20,000. ID The first civilian-spec Leyland Daf Roadrunner 4x4 was on display in the livery of Southern Electric, which has bought three of the 11.6-tonners.