December 6, 2022. BWG Foods announced a significant €2 million expansion to its low-carbon delivery fleet, through the addition of ten new biomethane-powered heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), adding to its existing fleet of two biogas trucks, which were originally launched in 2020.
The trucks were part of a company programme to test low-carbon technologies across the business’s distribution operations. The success of that trial programme resulted in BWG Foods – owner and operator of the Spar, Eurospar, Londis, Mace and XL brands – taking delivery of ten new biogas HGV trucks, which will be on the road before the end of the year.
Plans are already in place to add additional low-carbon vehicles in the near future, as the group pushes to significantly reduce carbon emissions across its distribution operation.
The new HGV trucks are fueled with biomethane, in place of traditional diesel fuel, with the biogas being produced through the natural breakdown of food and sewage waste.
BWG Foods contributes non-consumable food waste from its distribution operations, including its 240,000-square-foot national distribution centre in Dublin, to produce fuel for its new biogas vehicles at Green Generation’s biogas production site, in Nurney, Co. Kildare.
This a circular solution that, BWG Foods notes, is unique in Ireland.
