Conor Walsh

There's seven electric bin lorries in operation in Dublin now, and that's a fairly new thing.

But, you know, as Colin says, the infrastructure is difficult.

It takes 10 times as much electricity to fuel up a truck as it does for a car.

And the infrastructure isn't necessarily there.

So even if our members bought loads of electric vehicles, it's like, as you said, Dublin Bus, they'd be sitting around waiting for the bus.

you know, the electricity network to accommodate them.

But look, we're not just stuck on electricity.

We have quite a lot of people operating with... They're using CNG, compressed natural gas, which is a fossil fuel, but it's a step towards biomethane.

And biomethane is where we're doing some really good work now because we've...

A number of anaerobic digestion plants that two of them are producing road transport fuel, biomethane, and there's others on the way.

And, you know, these are facilities that we visit with the food waste.

So we bring food waste to an anaerobic digestion plant and we fuel up the truck there with the gas that's coming out of that food waste that was brought there.

So that's been really good.

Now, we're also using HVO, hydro-treated vegetable oil.

So one of our members said to me yesterday, yeah, that maybe hydrogen will be the way forward.

We don't know.

We have a company that's building a hydrogen plant.

You know, so look, a lot of our members are very interested in achieving, you know, net zero by 2040 and are working on those plans.

The diesel fleet will not be the future, you know, but we're not sure will the future be electric or will it be biomethane or HVO?