Source: Press Antwerp

The City of Antwerp keeps parks and squares clean with LEVA-EU member EVPro’s Stuyf pickups.

After a successful test phase, the electric Stuyf pickup has become a permanent solution for the Antwerp City Cleaning Service to help keep public spaces clean. These silent, environmentally friendly vehicles that are driven while standing are 100% electric and offer an efficient and ergonomic solution for city employees. The EVPro Stuyf pickups are used to remove litter and empty waste bins in parks, shopping, and walking areas, and busy places.

These innovative vehicles offer numerous advantages. They improve the park experience for visitors because they are silent and thus maintain the peace and atmosphere in public areas. They are also efficient, as these electric handcarts can reach places that are more difficult to reach for larger vehicles. The use of these handcarts also avoids possible conflicts between vulnerable road users and larger collection vehicles in busy places.

Alderman for urban cleaning and waste, Ken Casier, stated: “As a city, we are committed to a smart greening of our urban cleaning vehicles. For example, we now have electric handcarts to keep our parks clean. Nice and quiet so that they do not disturb anyone and ergonomic for our highly valued employees. With the help of all residents and visitors who deposit waste correctly and with the extra manpower that we deploy during the ‘park season’, we can rightly say of every park: clean, huh!”

This success is part of a wider rollout of Stuyf pickups across Belgium. In addition to the fleet of 21 handcarts now in use in Antwerp, EVPro has vehicles in use in Bruges, Brussels, Schaerbeek, Ghent, and growing.

In addition to the rollout of electric trolleys, the city of Antwerp continues to focus on greening vehicles at the City Cleaning Department. Since the start of the park season, from April 1 to October 1, 45 additional staff members have been deployed to keep parks as clean as possible. The City of Antwerp continues to work towards a clean city, and calls on its residents and all visitors to dispose of waste correctly.