外文翻譯--綠色垃圾車

1、<p><b>　　綠 色 垃 圾 車</b></p><p>　　越來(lái)越多的垃圾運(yùn)輸商開(kāi)始傾銷處理柴油，改用天然氣這樣的更潔凈燃料，這個(gè)新發(fā)現(xiàn)是由德博朗金,杰瑞博德斯基以及杰姆卡龍調(diào)查報(bào)告的。</p><p>　　摘　要: 這項(xiàng)研究,調(diào)查通報(bào)了垃圾車對(duì)環(huán)境、衛(wèi)生、工人和國(guó)家能源安全的影響。我們也介紹了一系列運(yùn)用當(dāng)今新興和主流的燃料以及引擎技術(shù)的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，簡(jiǎn)要介

2、紹了已經(jīng)通過(guò)測(cè)試并運(yùn)用的先進(jìn)垃圾車技術(shù)和可供選擇的燃料。我們研究的動(dòng)機(jī)是為了天然氣運(yùn)用工程、各類車用燃料和技術(shù)、車輛加油費(fèi)用及基建、遇到障礙、職工培訓(xùn)、減少排放和噪音以及運(yùn)用到新車上等問(wèn)題。</p><p>　　關(guān)鍵詞: 綠色垃圾車、潔凈燃料、天然氣燃料卡車</p><p><b>　　1　前言</b></p><p>　　每天清晨, 垃圾車穿

3、梭于全國(guó)的大街小巷，?？吭谄咔灏俣嗳f(wàn)個(gè)都市和市郊家庭的附近。這些垃圾車一路上不僅收集垃圾還回收廢紙、塑料、以及金屬，但是這些廢料是由超過(guò)七百萬(wàn)企業(yè)和將近 100,000 州和地方政府所丟棄。搬運(yùn)廢物是一項(xiàng)可以讓我們的街道和人行道免于垃圾和鼠害的重要的工作，盡管如此，它仍然沒(méi)有受到足夠地重視。美國(guó)是一個(gè)垃圾制造數(shù)量不斷上升的國(guó)家，過(guò)去30年來(lái),城市人均每天產(chǎn)生的固體廢物量倍增，從2.3磅到4.7磅。估計(jì)有136000輛垃圾回收車，120

4、00輛運(yùn)輸車以及31000輛垃圾處理車在帶走美國(guó)的垃圾。</p><p>　　這支龐大的隊(duì)伍帶來(lái)的負(fù)面影響是多方面而且廣泛的。90%以上的垃圾車——以及超過(guò)99%的重型載重垃圾車產(chǎn)成空氣和噪音的污染。柴油廢氣威脅市民的健康，有毒有害物質(zhì)可導(dǎo)致肺癌，噪音會(huì)引起嚴(yán)重的聽(tīng)覺(jué)疾病。</p><p>　　這項(xiàng)研究,調(diào)查通報(bào)了垃圾車對(duì)環(huán)境、衛(wèi)生、工人和國(guó)家能源安全的影響。我們也介紹了一系列運(yùn)用當(dāng)今新興

5、和主流的燃料以及引擎技術(shù)的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，簡(jiǎn)要介紹了已經(jīng)通過(guò)測(cè)試并運(yùn)用的先進(jìn)垃圾車技術(shù)和可供選擇的燃料。我們研究的動(dòng)機(jī)是為了天然氣運(yùn)用工程、各類車用燃料和技術(shù)、車輛加油費(fèi)用及基建、遇到障礙、職工培訓(xùn)、減少排放和噪音以及運(yùn)用到新車上等問(wèn)題。在整個(gè)過(guò)程中我們采訪了許多垃圾行業(yè)的人士、引擎制造者、燃料供應(yīng)者、管理者以及其他行業(yè)的專家。結(jié)論就是這樣研究得來(lái)的。</p><p><b>　　2 正文</b>&

6、lt;/p><p><b>　　替代柴油</b></p><p>　　柴油燃料垃圾車是美國(guó)最古老的、最耗燃料的但同時(shí)也是最污染環(huán)境的車隊(duì)，他們對(duì)環(huán)境、社區(qū)衛(wèi)生服務(wù)人員，以及操作它們的工人的健康構(gòu)成很大的威脅。此外，這些車輛幾乎完全依賴于石油燃料的化合物，由于這些燃料出口國(guó)都是世界上政局不穩(wěn)定的地方，以至我們國(guó)家面臨著安全危機(jī)。令人欣慰的是這種局面改變了。19家礦物廢料的操

7、縱者（17家在美國(guó)，日本、荷蘭各1家）在改用綠色燃料的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)會(huì)議上表示，用改進(jìn)引擎技術(shù)，天然氣燃料汽車（NGVS）是可以實(shí)現(xiàn)的、具有商業(yè)價(jià)值的轉(zhuǎn)變。與此同時(shí),越來(lái)越多的社區(qū)開(kāi)始考慮引進(jìn)綠色技術(shù)并納入當(dāng)?shù)乩占?duì)伍。在這個(gè)方向上邁出的每一步都促進(jìn)了能源安全，提供環(huán)境和健康方面利益的即時(shí)體現(xiàn)，以及使我們朝氫燃料電池的方向發(fā)展，最終實(shí)現(xiàn)可持續(xù)發(fā)展、無(wú)污染、可再生的能源和燃料。</p><p><b>　　建設(shè)

8、天然氣車隊(duì)</b></p><p>　　柴油機(jī)垃圾運(yùn)輸車包括在那些排放要求使用清潔能源和使用昂貴技術(shù)（包括低硫燃料和污染控制裝置，象粒子過(guò)濾器和氧催化劑那樣）重型車輛中，并于2004年開(kāi)始使用該標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。這些技術(shù)中有一些但不是全部都和柴油消耗有關(guān)聯(lián)。替代燃料和先進(jìn)的推進(jìn)力系統(tǒng)能輕易達(dá)到新標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，目前已經(jīng)被推廣和廣泛運(yùn)用于商業(yè)——主要是使用天然氣的發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)。美國(guó)通知監(jiān)督17支垃圾車隊(duì)和9支其它車隊(duì)，共部署了69

9、2輛天然氣燃料卡車。當(dāng)越來(lái)越多的車輛制造商和燃料基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施提供者和汽車部門的發(fā)展有利害關(guān)系時(shí)，越來(lái)越多的市政和私人操作者每年把天然氣燃料卡車增加到他們的車隊(duì)中。下面是關(guān)于當(dāng)今天然氣廢料收集隊(duì)伍的要點(diǎn)，隨后是調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)和關(guān)于干凈燃料的綜合建議以及垃圾車隊(duì)建設(shè)的操作：</p><p>　　垃圾車可以燃燒壓縮天然氣（CNG）或者液化天然氣（LNG），為目前美國(guó)有100萬(wàn)戶以上,數(shù)以萬(wàn)計(jì)的企業(yè)和城市的居民提供服務(wù)。</

10、p><p>　　1989年紐約市環(huán)保局率先使用天然氣卡車，目前他們操作著36輛CNG卡車。</p><p>　　垃圾管理公司，垃圾工業(yè)最大的運(yùn)輸和處理公司，在天然氣卡車的使用上明顯是美國(guó)工業(yè)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，他們擁有14支車隊(duì)380輛卡車，其中13支在加州，另一支在賓夕法尼亞州。</p><p>　　通過(guò)對(duì)美國(guó)26支使用NGVS的垃圾車隊(duì)調(diào)查顯示，10個(gè)是由公共機(jī)構(gòu)操縱，16個(gè)

11、是由根據(jù)合同規(guī)定隸屬市政府的私人公司操縱。</p><p>　　當(dāng)整個(gè)路線對(duì)燃料的需求超過(guò)車輛本身所帶的壓縮天然氣的能力時(shí)，在近700輛天然氣卡車中，69%是用液化天然氣作動(dòng)力的，31%是用壓縮天然氣作動(dòng)力。很多時(shí)候之所以選擇壓縮天然氣是因?yàn)榭梢院推渌能囮?duì)共同使用現(xiàn)有的加油站。</p><p>　　盡管目前在商業(yè)供應(yīng)上，天然氣垃圾車遠(yuǎn)低于傳統(tǒng)垃圾車1%。如果所有的公司都計(jì)劃實(shí)施天然氣垃圾

12、車工程的話，那么垃圾車的數(shù)量將超過(guò)2200——還只是略超過(guò)百分之一的美國(guó)車隊(duì)。</p><p>　　許多卡車生產(chǎn)廠家都提供天然氣垃圾車，但各種各樣的天然氣垃圾車仍遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)落后于柴油車。</p><p>　　新公司出現(xiàn)在加油設(shè)備安裝、送天然氣燃料上爭(zhēng)生意的現(xiàn)象。</p><p>　　調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)：使用壓縮天然氣和液化天然氣的垃圾車減少了二氧化碳排放量,減小對(duì)空氣品質(zhì)的危害，同

13、時(shí)噪音小了，可以減輕對(duì)工人健康的威脅。</p><p>　　舉了9個(gè)垃圾車操作工人的例子證明使用柴油對(duì)他們健康產(chǎn)生負(fù)面影響。在紐約環(huán)保局工作的司機(jī)是最有力的證據(jù)，在那里普通卡車按年代作了標(biāo)記，天然氣卡車被優(yōu)先安排使用。</p><p>　　通過(guò)調(diào)查荷蘭這個(gè)廣泛采用天然氣燃料卡車以減小噪音的國(guó)家發(fā)現(xiàn)，旁置式燃料系統(tǒng)可以減小98%的噪音，內(nèi)置式燃料系統(tǒng)可以減小90%的噪音，后置式燃料系統(tǒng)可以減

14、小50%的噪音。</p><p>　　車隊(duì)的管理人士全面地分析了減小噪音對(duì)卡車駕駛員的好處，這些噪音對(duì)卡車駕駛員造成聽(tīng)覺(jué)以及交際方面的危害。</p><p>　　調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)：壓縮天然氣和液化天然氣在燃料安全方面有一項(xiàng)光輝的記錄。</p><p>　　壓縮天然氣燃料箱順利通過(guò)了耐久性測(cè)試，這項(xiàng)測(cè)試對(duì)全世界范圍內(nèi)壓縮天然氣箱應(yīng)用產(chǎn)生的破裂以及泄露問(wèn)題進(jìn)行了廣泛地調(diào)查。數(shù)以

15、千計(jì)的貨運(yùn)卡車載著液化天然氣行駛在美國(guó)的高速公路上，但是沒(méi)有發(fā)生一件嚴(yán)重的事故。1990到1993年這段時(shí)間里，300輛液化天然氣汽車行駛了600萬(wàn)到800萬(wàn)英里，其中只發(fā)生了4件事故，并且只對(duì)燃料系統(tǒng)造成了很小的損壞。但是天然氣燃料不如傳統(tǒng)燃料安全的看法仍然存在。</p><p>　　調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)：改用壓縮天然氣/液化天然氣的成本很大。</p><p>　　實(shí)現(xiàn)燃料轉(zhuǎn)變工程的首要成本可能是垃

16、圾收集代理商不認(rèn)同這樣的一個(gè)改變的重要性，讓他們認(rèn)同并自動(dòng)改用新燃料會(huì)遇到很多挫折。</p><p>　　對(duì)美國(guó)車隊(duì)的調(diào)查研究顯示，天然氣燃料垃圾車的價(jià)格從210000美元到250000美元，這個(gè)價(jià)格和傳統(tǒng)的柴油燃料垃圾車相比要高出15%到25%。現(xiàn)有的卡車要實(shí)行動(dòng)力的改變費(fèi)用在30000美元到100000美元之間。</p><p>　　改進(jìn)現(xiàn)有的垃圾車隊(duì)到天然氣車隊(duì)的所有成本必須依靠許多

17、廠家，包括系統(tǒng)內(nèi)各部分燃料的補(bǔ)給、車輛維護(hù)成本、設(shè)備需求、當(dāng)?shù)氐陌踩ㄒ?guī)、勞力和培訓(xùn)成本、燃料成本以及必要的經(jīng)濟(jì)激勵(lì)。</p><p>　　調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)：國(guó)外以及國(guó)內(nèi)動(dòng)向是產(chǎn)生固體垃圾的工業(yè)轉(zhuǎn)向使用更潔凈的燃料——部分使用天然氣燃料。</p><p>　　車輛部門的官方人員大量的引用了當(dāng)今的環(huán)境規(guī)則作為把柴油燃料垃圾車轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)樘烊粴饫嚨睦碛伞GVS允許車隊(duì)符合現(xiàn)有的以及政府計(jì)劃調(diào)整的規(guī)則，

18、這些規(guī)則是專門為重型垃圾清掃卡車設(shè)計(jì)，用于提高空氣質(zhì)量的。</p><p>　　決策者經(jīng)常受到經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)的影響。更低的天然氣價(jià)格、優(yōu)惠的稅收政策、給予項(xiàng)目以及法規(guī)方面的特權(quán)，使得NGVS能夠讓垃圾運(yùn)輸商更經(jīng)濟(jì)合理的實(shí)現(xiàn)向天然氣垃圾車的轉(zhuǎn)變。</p><p>　　美國(guó)政府允許MSERC為了天然氣垃圾汽車的利益建立一個(gè)空氣污染的商業(yè)市場(chǎng)。</p><p>　　法院發(fā)布的命令

19、和市民的投訴導(dǎo)致了天然氣垃圾車以及重型天然氣發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)的產(chǎn)生和改進(jìn)。</p><p>　　高層決策者希望成為環(huán)境或則可以左右環(huán)境組織者的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)。</p><p>　　在垃圾回收行業(yè)的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)領(lǐng)域，一些運(yùn)輸商希望通過(guò)使用NGVS在市場(chǎng)上超過(guò)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手。</p><p>　　決定改換垃圾車的燃料也是為了改善工人的工作狀和減少采用柴油燃料帶來(lái)的健康威脅以及柴油引擎產(chǎn)生的大量噪音。&l

20、t;/p><p><b>　　推 薦：</b></p><p>　　為了遠(yuǎn)離使用柴油，走向一個(gè)更潔凈的，穩(wěn)固發(fā)展的運(yùn)輸業(yè)的未來(lái)，推薦下列政策和方法：</p><p>　　現(xiàn)在就開(kāi)展替代柴油燃料垃圾車的活動(dòng)，避免將來(lái)低硫柴油燃料的開(kāi)支以及發(fā)射控制技術(shù)，這些技術(shù)面臨許多迫切需要解決的EPA方面的問(wèn)題以及國(guó)家政府的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)問(wèn)題，同時(shí)還涉及到潛在的未來(lái)柴油燃

21、料卡車以及燃料法令的問(wèn)題。對(duì)柴油燃料的危害給予高度的重視，并更快地作出調(diào)整，那些率先使用諸如天然氣這樣的替代燃料的垃圾運(yùn)輸商將不會(huì)因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)在以及將來(lái)的政策法規(guī)改變而影響他們的生意。</p><p>　　和燃料供應(yīng)商、車站以及汽車提供商建立合作伙伴關(guān)系有助于實(shí)現(xiàn)成本的降低。有效的合作是實(shí)現(xiàn)成功地關(guān)鍵因素。</p><p><b>　　參 考：</b></p>

22、<p>　　以上的文章是綠色垃圾車草稿的摘要：清潔空氣的新技術(shù)，早在2003年由INFORM等發(fā)表，一個(gè)環(huán)境研究組織建立的《紐約城市》，這個(gè)雜志旨在找到促進(jìn)交通運(yùn)輸業(yè)穩(wěn)固發(fā)展的方法，對(duì)于完整的報(bào)告副本可以瀏覽 www.inform.org 。</p><p>　　Greener Garbage Trucks</p><p>　　More trash haulers dumpi

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24、ruck operations on the environment, public health, industry workers and national energy security. We also investigated a range of experiences with today’s emerging and mainstream fuel and engine technologies, profiling t

25、he pioneering waste collection agencies that have tested and deployed advanced garbage truck technologies and alternative fuels. We explored their motivations for natural gas deployment projects, the types of t</p>

26、<p>　　Keywords: Greener Garbage Trucks, cleaner fuels, natural gas trucks</p><p>　　1.Foreword</p><p>　　Every morning across the nation, garbage trucks wend their way up and down our stree

27、ts, stopping at the curbs of more than 75 million urban and suburban households. These trucks haul away not just trash and recyclable paper, plastic and metal, but the materials discarded by more than seven million busin

28、esses and nearly 100,000 state and local government establishments. Hauling waste is an essential service that helps keep our streets and sidewalks free of refuse and the vermin that accompany it,</p><p>　　A

29、merica is an increasingly prolific garbage producer. Over the past 30 years, municipal solid waste generation per capita has doubled in the United States, from 2.3 to 4.7 pounds per day. An estimated 136,000 refuse colle

30、ction trucks, 12,000 transfer vehicles and 31,000 dedicated recycling vehicles haul away America’s garbage. </p><p>　　The negative impacts of this massive fleet are numerous and widespread. More than 90 perc

31、ent of all garbage trucks — and over 99 percent of heavy-heavy-duty garbage trucks — are diesel fueled, creating both air and noise pollution. Diesel emissions threaten our health with lung-damaging toxic substances and

32、noise levels that can cause serious hearing damage. </p><p>　　For this study, INFORM investigated the effects of garbage truck operations on the environment, public health, industry workers and national ener

33、gy security. We also investigated a range of experiences with today’s emerging and mainstream fuel and engine technologies, profiling the pioneering waste collection agencies that have tested and deployed advanced garbag

34、e truck technologies and alternative fuels. We explored their motivations for natural gas deployment projects, the types of truck techn</p><p>　　2．Main text</p><p>　　Alternatives to diesel emerg

35、e</p><p>　　Diesel-fueled garbage trucks are among the oldest, least fuel efficient and most polluting fleet vehicles in the U.S. Their operations pose significant threats to the environment, to the health of

36、 those in the communities they serve and to the workers who maintain and operate them. Moreover, the almost complete dependence of these vehicles on oil-derived fuels compounds the national security risks that our countr

37、y faces because of its reliance on oil imported from politically unstable parts of t</p><p>　　The good news is that change is afoot. Profiles of 19 waste hauling operators (17 in the United States and one ea

38、ch in Japan and the Netherlands) at the leading edge of the transition to cleaner alternative fuels show that natural gas vehicles (NGVs) are a commercially viable alternative, with other technologies emerging as well. M

39、eanwhile, an increasing number of communities are beginning to consider introducing cleaner technologies into their local trash collection fleets. </p><p>　　Every new step in this direction enhances energy s

40、ecurity, provides immediate environmental and health benefits and moves us toward the era of the hydrogen fuel cell, which may be the ultimate sustainable, pollution-free and renewable fuel and power source.</p>&

41、lt;p>　　Pioneering natural gas fleets</p><p>　　Diesel trash haulers are among those that will be subject to new federal heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards requiring the use of cleaner fuels and more co

42、stly technologies (including low-sulfur fuel and pollution control devices such as particulate filters and oxidation catalysts) beginning in 2004. These technologies address some but not all the pollution problems associ

43、ated with diesel exhaust.</p><p>　　Alternative fuels and advanced propulsion systems that can easily meet the new standards are being developed and some are fully commercial today — mainly with engines that

44、run on natural gas. INFORM profiled 17 garbage truck fleets and tracked an additional nine fleets that together deploy a total of 692 natural gas trucks in the U.S. Many municipal and private operators are adding natural

45、 gas garbage trucks to their fleets every year, while a growing number of vehicle manufacturers and fuel inf</p><p>　　Garbage trucks capable of burning either compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natura

46、l gas (LNG) currently serve more than one million U.S. households and tens of thousands of businesses and municipal residents..</p><p>　　The use of natural gas trucks was pioneered in 1989 by the New York Ci

47、ty Dept. of Sanitation, which currently operates 36 CNG trucks.</p><p>　　Waste Management, Inc., the largest hauling and disposal company in the waste industry, is the clear U.S. industry leader in the use o

48、f natural gas trucks, with 380 trucks in 14 of its fleets, including 13 in California and one in Pennsylvania.</p><p>　　Of the 26 U.S. garbage truck fleets using NGVs that INFORM studied, 10 are operated by

49、public agencies and 16 by private companies that operate under contract to a municipal government.</p><p>　　Of the nearly 700 natural gas trucks, 69 percent are powered by LNG and 31 percent by CNG. LNG was

50、preferred when the route demand for fuel was expected to exceed onboard CNG capacity. CNG was often chosen because of the availability of an existing fueling station that could be shared with other fleets.</p><

51、;p>　　Despite their commercial availability, natural gas garbage trucks make up far less than one percent of the garbage trucks operating today. If all the companies that are currently planning to implement natural gas

52、 garbage truck projects do so, the number of these trucks will increase to more than 2,200 — still only slightly more than one percent of the U.S. fleet.</p><p>　　Many major truck manufacturers offer natural

53、 gas garbage trucks, yet the variety of natural gas garbage trucks still lags far behind that of diesel trucks.</p><p>　　New companies are emerging to compete for business in installing refueling facilities

54、and delivering natural gas fuel.</p><p>　　FINDING: Garbage trucks operating on CNG or LNG have provided emissions reductions and reduced threats to workers from occupational air quality hazards and noise.<

55、;/p><p>　　Workers at nine garbage truck operations cited relief from the negative health effects of diesel exhaust. Driver preferences were most clearly evident at the New York City Dept. of Sanitation, where t

56、rucks are assigned by seniority and natural gas trucks are consistently preferred. </p><p>　　The Netherlands program, where the most comprehensive study of noise reductions with natural gas trucks was conduc

57、ted, verified reductions of 98 percent alongside, 90 percent inside and 50 percent behind the truck.</p><p>　　Fleet managers overwhelmingly reported that truck operators appreciated the reduction in noise, w

58、hich was hazardous to their hearing and made communication difficult.</p><p>　　FINDING: CNG and LNG have a stellar record of fuel safety.</p><p>　　CNG tanks have survived remarkable durability t

59、ests in extensive worldwide applications without leaking or rupture. Thousands of truckloads of LNG have been transported over U.S. highways without significant incident. In the course of 6 to 8 million miles traveled by

60、 over 300 LNG vehicles from 1990 to 1993, four collisions occurred, with little damage to the fuel system. Yet the perception still exists that natural gas is not as safe as conventional fuels.</p><p>　　FIND

61、ING: The costs of switching to CNG/LNG vary greatly.</p><p>　　The capital cost of implementing an alternative fuel program can be a significant disincentive to voluntary action by refuse collection agencies.

62、</p><p>　　Among U.S. fleets studied, the cost of a natural gas garbage truck ranged from $210,000 to $250,000, 15 to 25 percent more than the cost of a comparable diesel truck. The cost to repower an existin

63、g truck ranges from $30,000 to $100,000.</p><p>　　The overall cost of shifting a garbage truck fleet to natural gas depends on numerous factors, including refueling infrastructure options, truck maintenance

64、costs, facility requirements, local safety codes, labor and training costs, fuel cost and available economic incentives.</p><p>　　FINDING: External and internal motivations are driving the solid waste indust

65、ry to use cleaner fuels — and natural gas in particular.</p><p>　　Fleet officials most commonly cited the need to meet existing and pending environmental regulations as the reason for converting their diesel

66、 garbage trucks to natural gas. NGVs allow fleets to meet current and planned government regulations designed to clean up heavy-duty vehicles and improve air quality. </p><p>　　Decisionmakers were often infl

67、uenced by economics. The lower cost of natural gas, tax incentives, grant programs and bid specifications that give preference to companies that operate NGVs can make natural gas trucks more economically feasible for was

68、te haulers.</p><p>　　States that allow mobile-source emissions reduction credit (MSERC) trading have created a market for the air pollution benefits of natural gas garbage trucks.</p><p>　　Court

69、-issued mandates and citizen lawsuits have resulted in the deployment of natural gas garbage trucks and the development of heavy-duty natural gas engines.</p><p>　　The desire of a high-level decisionmaker to

70、 be an environmental leader or to position his/her organization as an environmental leader has motivated several operators.</p><p>　　In areas where there is competition in the refuse industry, some haulers w

71、ere motivated to use NGVs to give their organization a marketing edge over competitors.</p><p>　　The decision to deploy alternative fuel garbage trucks also was motivated by the desire to improve worker cond

72、itions and reduce the health risks associated with diesel exhaust and the excessive noise of diesel engines.</p><p>　　Recommendations：</p><p>　　To accelerate the transition away from diesel and

73、toward a clean, sustainable transportation future, INFORM recommends the following policies and programs:</p><p>　　Deploy alternative-fuel garbage trucks now to avoid the future expense of low-sulfur diesel

74、fuels and emissions control technologies that will be needed to meet much more stringent EPA and state government standards, along with other potentially costly future diesel truck and fuel ordinances. Given the increasi

75、ngly stringent regulations and heightened public concern about the toxicity of diesel exhaust, refuse haulers that take the initiative by shifting to alternative-fuel technologies such as </p><p>　　Develop p

76、artnerships with fuel suppliers, station builders and vehicle providers to help reduce the costs of implementation. Effective partnering has been a key element in successful programs to date.</p><p>　　REFERE

77、NCES:</p><p>　　The above article was excerpted from a draft of Green Garbage Trucks: New Technologies for Cleaner Air, a report scheduled for publication in early 2003 by INFORM, Inc., an environmental resea