Cardiff council could be set to spend millions of pounds on a new recycling fleet run on diesel. The proposed procurement of the 41 vehicles, which will cost £9.7m in capital funding if approved, is aimed at helping the council to improve its roll out of separated recycling across the city.
The council's cabinet member for climate change, councillor Caro Wild, said at an environmental scrutiny meeting on Thursday, July 6 that the local authority would like to have made the vehicles electric. However, he added that there were a number of issues preventing the local authority from making that move at the moment.
He said: "We have got the biggest electric RCV (refuse collection vehicle) fleet in Wales, but... because of the grid capacity at Lamby Way, the availability of the vehicles, the price of them, it is just not possible to do that number at this stage." One member of the council's environmental scrutiny committee, councillor Bethan Proctor, said she understood the reasoning behind this, but expressed some concerns over the move.
