There's been a lot of talk about whether biodiesel is green or not recently. A lot of people have been understandably shocked to realise that not all biodiesel has credible green credentials.

This is why our fuel is the real deal:

• Sustainable. Our fuel is made from 100% waste oil collected locally. We don't pass off fuel made from imported oils as a green alternative
• Quality. We have been doing this for 5 years and we put a lot of care into our fuel. Just ask the 1000+ people we have taught to make biodiesel on our courses if we know what we are doing.
• Legit. Unlike some of the fuel being sold at the moment, this is fully duty paid biodiesel for road use (although if you want to use if for off-road use you could claim back £270 from the taxman).
• Ethical. We are a not-for-profit workers co-op. The money we make goes straight into honest wages for honest work and nobody takes a cut.

Biodiesel basics

Biodiesel is a fuel made from vegetable or animal oils. It is functionally equivalent to petro-diesel for most applications: nearly all Diesel engines can run on biodiesel without modification. We only make biodiesel from waste vegetable oil. When made from this feedstock biodiesel offers particularly large environmental benefits over conventional petro-diesel. In particular this ‘recycled’ biodiesel offers a very significant reduction in net carbon emissions and hence in greenhouse gases. Biodiesel also has the potential to be cheaper to the consumer than petro-diesel and to minimise engine wear.

For more detail on running biodiesel in your vehicle click here.

for a great introduction to climate change checkout kate evans' funny and informative cartoon

for a much more detailed introduction why not check out our courses at CAT and LILI or get a copy of our book ?

The UK government has recognised the contribution biodiesel can make to meeting international targets for carbon emissions by lowering the rate of duty on biodiesel for road use to 30.35p/litre . This compares to 50.35p/litre for petro-diesel. Biodiesel for off-road use is taxed at a similar rate to 'red' diesel (3.13p/litre for biodiesel). [correct as of Nov 2007]