Britain's Leading Topsoil Supplier Goes Carbon Neutral
Britain's Leading Topsoil Supplier To Sell New Green Bio-Diesel Fuel 10% better for your pocket - 78% better for your environment
Dandy's Topsoil, Britain's Leading Topsoil Supplier is well on track to becoming Carbon Neutral and condsiders the answer to its quest to lie in other company's waste cooking oil.
Over the past 12 months Dandy's Topsoil has been setting up a network of local restaurants and take away outlets to collect waste cooking oil from. The oil is then recycled and processed into high quality bio-diesel conforming to EN Standards. It is at this point that Dandy's are required to pay HM Customs Road Fuel Duty on the new green fuel which is then ready for use in a normally diesel powered motor vehicle. After all it was a Bio-Fuel named Peanut Oil that Mr Diesel himself used to power the very first of his engines on.
It is said that Bio-diesel has better lubricating properties than today's lower viscosity diesel fuels. Bio-diesel addition reduces engine wear increasing the life of the fuel injection equipment that relies on the fuel for its lubrication, such as high pressure injection pumps, pump injectors (also called unit injectors) and fuel injectors.
A bio-diesel lifecycle was the subject of a US government study in 1998. The study confirmed that, compared with burning the same sample of fossil fuel diesel, bio-diesel produced 78% lower carbon dioxide emissions (the same amount that it used in its creation in plant form) and significantly lower emission of other harmful pollutants.
Bio-diesel emissions have decreased levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and nitrated PAH compounds which have been identified as potential cancer causing compounds.
Will Bio-Diesel Work In My Car?
Bio-diesel will work in any diesel engine with little or no modification to the fuel system. As Bio-Diesel has a solvent effect that may release deposits that have accumulated in fuel tanks and pipes from previous diesel storage, the release of deposits may clog filters during the initial use period. Provided you understand this and change the existing filters after an initial period of use, there will be no continued problem running on Bio-Diesel.
Most serious operators, realising the massive savings on offer by switching to biodiesel, fit new higher capacity filters in the fuel lines to prevent clogging. A small price to pay in return for so many benefits.
Will Bio-Fuel Help My Engine?
Using Bio-Diesel will prolong engine life expectancy beyond that of using fossil fuel diesel. Figures are not yet available to support this view but as there are virtually NO carbon deposits left by using bio-diesel, it is not unreasonable to expect engine life to be extended by up to 60%.
Simon Hughes Dandy's Business Development Manager commented "By recycling waste cooking oil from local food outlets we are able to power our entire fleet of delivery vehicles, the process of producing such a high grade bio-diesel from used cooking oil is not an easy one and has been the result of extensive investment by the company over the past few years.
It has been our objective as Britain's Leading Topsoil Supplier with our own fleet of delivery vehicles to become carbon neutral as soon as possible, but at the very least by 2013 We are now at the stage that we can produce more than enough bio-diesel for our own delivery vehicles and therefore with the support of Flintshire County Council's Trading Standards Department will be selling B50 Bio-Diesel to the general public. B50 Bio-Diesel is a 50/50 blend of Bio-Diesel and Normal Road Diesel.
The big question we have been constantly asked is how much will it cost? We are expecting the B50 Bio-Diesel Blend to retail at around 5 pence per litre cheaper than the cheapest petrol station prices which would currently put it around 91 pence per litre. We are hoping in the not to distant future to offer a B100 Bio-Diesel which we expect to be able to retail for 10 pence per litre cheaper than normal Road Diesel.
Our Bio-Diesel is Duty paid and our retail price includes VAT at 15%".
Bio-Diesel is due to be available from Dandy's Topsoil on Sealand Road in Chester in early February after the installation of a HM Customs approved retail pump and the testing of the pump by Trading Standards.
Simon Hughes finished by saying "It has been our objective as Britain's Leading Topsoil Supplier with our own fleet of delivery vehicles to become carbon neutral as soon as possible, but at the very least by 2013.
The Management Team here at Dandy's Top Soil took the decision to invest heavily into the recycling of other companies waste oils as a way to meet this environmental obligation, by selling off our excess Bio-Diesel we will be able to not only reduce our emmissions but offset 100% of our emmissions and thus achieve our goal and if by doing this we are able to reduce our customer's fuel bills as well all well and good".
