Bus Powered by French-fry Fat Reaches Asia

Perhaps in the faraway future, your option at the petrol kiosk will be 95, 92 and french fries. Environmenta activist, Andy Pag has been travelling on a bus fuelled by french fry fat which he claims emits a smell reminiscent of arm pit odor. We’re all for eco-friendly travel but at what cost? Perhaps french fry fat could be combined with a scent of parfum and then we would have the answer to recycling fast food by-products.

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Bus Powered by French-fry Fat Reaches Asia
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by Bonnie Alter

Andy Pag, an environmental activist, has been travelling around the world in a bus powered by french-fry fat. He left London on September 19, 2009 and has covered 3,000 miles so far.

Part of the Biotruck Expedition, he is attempting to drive around the world emitting less than 2 tons of CO2. What’s it like driving in a bus powered by chip fat: “It smells like a bus driver’s armpit, but when you are using rubbish you can’t expect too much” he said today in Istanbul.

The G20 nations have agreed to reduce CO2 emissions to two tons per person per year by 2050. This is the amount of carbon emissions which scientists have concluded that every person on the planet will personally have to meet by 2050 if we are to stave off the worst impacts of man-made climate change. In the UK and US average levels are currently about 10-15 tons per person.

The Biotruck Expedition is attempting to drive around the world emitting less than 2 tons of CO2 in order to dramatize what 2 tons of carbons means. They will also investigate how people are using and generating energy, and their attitudes towards carbon emissions.

Since leaving London on the 19th of September, the bus has covered 3000 miles through France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, the Balkans and Greece to reach Turkey. In that time Pag has collected over 500 litres of chip fat and biodiesel made from used cooking oil to put in his tank.

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