Competition to name Reading's new electric bin lorries
Council runs competition to coincide with the climate change festival
READING residents are being given the chance to take part in a competition launched to coincide with the town’s Climate Change Festival.
The competition offers the opportunity for residents to name the town's first five electric bin lorries, otherwise known as electric refuse collection vehicles (eRCVs).
Reading was the first place in Berkshire to introduce an electric bin lorry in 2021, and has since complemented that by increasing numbers to five fully electric vehicles amongst its fleet.
Local schoolchildren are being given the opportunity to name three of the electric bin lorries, with two trucks available for Reading’s adults to come up with clever (but clean!) names for.
You can go to the competition page on the council's website by Monday 26 June to enter.
The contest follows a similar competition last year to name Reading’s food waste trucks. You can now see Ricky Gerwaste, Waster Taster, the Bindalorian, Hungry Hippo, Trashosaurus and Bin Truck McBinFace on their rounds collecting food waste around the borough.
Cllr Karen Rowland, Lead Member for Environmental Services and Community Safety, said:
“Reading boasts the 4th largest cut in its carbon footprint of all 374 local authority areas in the UK, and I’m delighted that we continue to lead the way in making crucial changes to continue responding to the climate emergency. Our residents are really contributing to the cause by recycling more and engaging with food waste recycling, and now we want their help to name our expanding fleet of electric refuse vehicles that are doing such a good job of reducing vehicle emissions on Reading’s roads”.
The council claim the switch from diesel to electric collection vehicles saves 32,200kg of greenhouse gas emissions, and the transition of the Council’s fleet from fossil fuel to electric, particularly their waste collection vehicles, is a key element of the Council’s Carbon Plan 2020-25.