Bolton Alternative Fuels Coop

• Biodiesel can be made from vegetable oils or animal fats and has properties that are virtually identical to mineral diesel.
    
• Using old cooking oil for making Biodiesel presents the best opportunity to recycle local waste and minimise transportation pollution whilst providing a cleaner burning fuel. Biodiesel can be made locally from local waste rather than being refined and shipped around the globe. The oil we get has already been used and so rather than using farmland or rainforest we are re-cycling a waste! We only use Waste Vegetable Oil as our feedstock
    
• Using Biodiesel from waste oil can be significantly better for both the environment and local economies. Emissions can be reduced and wealth kept in the local communities.
    
• Even the US governement has acknowledged the overall reduction of harmful emissions at the exhaust pipe (see Emissions).
    
• At approximately 80% carbon neutral Biodiesel is not absolutely perfect. However it's a massive gain over petro-diesel and presents us with the chance for individuals and groups to make a real difference at a local level.  

So why is there so much bad publicity around biofuels?
 
Most biofuels require land to grow the fuel crops. Farm land that grows food is likely to be converted to growing these fuel crops pushing up the price and availability of foodstuffs. In the case of Palm Oils large areas of rainforest have already been destroyed for these plantations.
 
So if you want to avoid the greenwash stick to Fuel from Waste!

From Waste to Fuel!

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