{"id":687,"date":"2009-02-11T09:17:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T09:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2011-08-12T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T15:25:52","slug":"electric-van-powered-by-its-own-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/687","title":{"rendered":"Electric Bin Van Powered By Its Own Garbage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/huddersfield\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-691 alignright\" title=\"kirklees-electric-van\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kirklees-electric-van.jpg\" alt=\"kirklees-electric-van\" width=\"270\" height=\"202\" \/>Huddersfield<\/a>-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirklees.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kirklees Council<\/a> has just become the organisation to run a van powered by the waste it collects!<\/p>\n<p>The van, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithelectricvehicles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smith Electric Vehicles<\/a> Ford Transit, is completely electric and is being used to collect garbage from a number of rubbish bins in the Huddersfield town centre area.<\/p>\n<p>This rubbish is then taken to the council&#8217;s Energy from Waste plant at Emerald Street, Huddersfield, where it is converted into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The electricity generated by the Emerald Street EfW plant is then used to charge the electric van overnight &#8211; completing the circle and creating a zero emission vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirklees Council has just put into service an electric van which is charged from electricity generated by the waste it collects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[219,618,619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}