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Fuel for The Big Lemon busesOur buses run on 100% recycled cooking oil. The waste oil is collected from chip shops, restaurants and hotels in Brighton & Hove and across Sussex. It is then processed in a factory near Eastbourne to make biodiesel, a plant-based alternative to regular mineral diesel, and delivered to us. Unlike burning fossil fuels like mineral diesel - which releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which had been buried for millions of years - burning plant material only releases the carbon dioxide that the plant had absorbed in the last few years as it grew, not any new emissions in our lifetime. Plant material is also a renewable resource, and used cooking oil would otherwise be sent to our already overstretched landfill sites (which in turn emit another greenhouse gas - methane). Throughout the supply chain, the environmental impact is minimised. The van that collects the waste oil is powered by the biodiesel, and the factory that produces the biodiesel is powered by a generator that runs on the biodiesel too. There is no water used in the process apart from in the tea that the workers drink. The benefits of biodiesel from recycled cooking oil include:
For more information about biodiesel from waste cooking oil, please download the Word document here.
* Source: “How to make biodiesel”, Low Impact Living Initiative, Winslow 2005 |
Registered Office and Operating Centre: Protran House, Boundary Road, Black Rock, Brighton BN2 5TJ Tel. 01273 681 681 : Fax. 01273 681 681: E. lemonbus@thebiglemon.com
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