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Republic Services' 250 electric trucks: real progress, wrong headline
TeardownSeptember 24, 2026

Republic Services' 250 electric trucks: real progress, wrong headline

Electric collection trucks work, and Republic has proved it at city scale. But they are about 1.5% of its fleet — and its landfills' methane dwarfs anything coming out of a tailpipe.

"They charged for recycling, then dumped it with the trash"
TeardownAugust 24, 2026

"They charged for recycling, then dumped it with the trash"

Two doorbell videos show recycling carts going into a garbage truck. That is real evidence of a service failure — and not evidence that recycling is fake. The gap between those two statements is where the actual records live.

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