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Colin O'Byrne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
60 total appearances

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Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

Thanks, David.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

Yeah, it's a conversation that could be had, but I think, look, we are where we are now after however long the private waste management companies.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

And I think you could have that conversation, but look, Conor's outlined some of the costs involved there.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

I think from our point of view, the conversation we should be having there is that if four trucks serving customers on the same street is an unavoidable sort of cost of the current model that we're using, we should look at electrification of the fleet.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

Now, that doesn't have to be all trucks electrified from right now.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

But it's what we're seeing in Europe, especially places like Amsterdam, Copenhagen.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

They've massive amounts of electric bin trucks going around.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

And these reduce noise, they reduce emissions.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

And that makes it makes a big difference to your quality of life.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

I think that's part of the model.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

If we are pursuing the current model, then we have those trucks.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

Well, look, it depends on what you're looking for.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

Look, if you are the customer, I suppose you're looking for your options.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

You're looking for any amount of different companies to deal with.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

If we go with a model whereby, say, it's just one operator per postcode, in theory, that sounds great.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

You just have the smaller amount or less amount of trucks going up and down.

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

But then are the consumers going to be happy with less choice?

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

I mean, that's...

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

Yeah, I think...

Today with David McCullagh
Rethinking waste: Could we make bin collections more environmentally friendly?

From the voice point of view, we would always say, look, it's waste reduction is what we're after.

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