This company in Dubai is taking the oil used to cook McDonald's fries and chicken nuggets and turning it into biodiesel for commercial trucks, which are big contributors to CO2 emissions
Transport accounts for more than a fifth of global CO2 emissions, by most estimates, and diesel-powered commercial trucks are big contributors.
Such vehicles are the target for Neutral Fuels, which has been building an empire from leftover kitchen waste since launching what it describes as the Middle East's first biofuel refinery in Dubai in 2011."While we are all very excited about what's happening in the US and China with electric cars, there isn't the fantastic explosion in electric trucks," says company CEO and founder Karl Feilder."So the diesel trucks have to run on something that's a bit cleaner.
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