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Vegetarian Times, May, 2008

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Chocolate past its sell-by date is teaming up with recycled cooking oil in a recipe for greenhouse-gas-reducing biodiesel fuel. In December 2007, a BioTruck powered by the fuel completed an 8,500-kilometer trek from the United Kingdom to Mali, West Africa. Its mission: to deliver a biodiesel processing unit donated by British biodiesel producer Ecotec to the Mali Folke Center, a charity promoting local enterprise through environmental projects. An expedition sponsor, Ecotec developed the process of converting a nearby factory's waste chocolate into a bioethanol that doesn't risk driving up food prices and decimating tropical forests. "It smells a lot nicer than normal diesel fumes," reports Andy Pag, one of the drivers of the BioTruck, of the chocolaty fuel. Even better, the expedition's biofuel use, plus offsetting, saved an estimated 15 metric tons of carbon emissions. To learn more, stop by biotruck.co.uk.

Sweet fuel source

Vegetarian Times, May, 2008

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