Who ate all the pies? My car!
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Wonderfully appropriate 'green petrol' for PH pie lovers 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/en...
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Telegraph Online said:
Crisps, pies and junk food used as new vehicle fuel
It's one way to consume junk food without it being bad for you. One of Britain's biggest petrol suppliers is now melting down crisps, pies and pasties to make motor fuel at its £50m biofuel plant in Lincolnshire.
The best ingredients are pies, pasties and crisps for their high fat content but other foodstuffs range from taramasalata to oil from fried fish containing breadcrumbs.
By Rowena Mason 5:00PM BST 07 May 2011
Greenergy, which supplies a fifth of the UK's petrol and diesel, said it has started making motor fuels from food waste, after initially feeding its plant with pure cooking oil.
The company only uses food that can't be sold, because the products are mis-shapen, past their sell by date or overcooked. The best ingredients are pies, pasties and crisps for their high fat content but other foodstuffs range from taramasalata to oil from fried fish containing breadcrumbs.
Greenergy is in a partnership with Brocklesby, a specialist in recycling edible oils that would previously have gone to landfill or compost, are now being converted for biofuel and energy production.
The fuel giant invested £50m in the biodiesel production facility at Immingham on the east coast to process used cooking oils, which are more complicated to process than "new" oils such as rapeseed.
It uses more than 20m litres a month of used cooking oil supplied from a range of food producers. However, extracting oil from foodstuffs is a new process.
The oils and fats are removed from the food through a process developed by Brocklesby and are then further purified by Greenergy.
The finished biodiesel is then blended into the diesel that Greenergy supplies to petrol stations nationally.
Any food solids that remain after processing are currently dried and composted or used to produce energy through anaerobic digestion.
Andrew Owens, chief executive of Greenergy, said: "The quantities of biodiesel that we're currently producing from solid food waste are small, but we're expecting to scale up so that this soon becomes a significant proportion of our biodiesel.
"To put it into context, just one of these new facilities could handle enough waste pies or crisps to fill a cruise ship. With multiple plants, the potential for this kind of technology to reduce fuel emissions is considerable."
Trace It's one way to consume junk food without it being bad for you. One of Britain's biggest petrol suppliers is now melting down crisps, pies and pasties to make motor fuel at its £50m biofuel plant in Lincolnshire.
The best ingredients are pies, pasties and crisps for their high fat content but other foodstuffs range from taramasalata to oil from fried fish containing breadcrumbs.
By Rowena Mason 5:00PM BST 07 May 2011
Greenergy, which supplies a fifth of the UK's petrol and diesel, said it has started making motor fuels from food waste, after initially feeding its plant with pure cooking oil.
The company only uses food that can't be sold, because the products are mis-shapen, past their sell by date or overcooked. The best ingredients are pies, pasties and crisps for their high fat content but other foodstuffs range from taramasalata to oil from fried fish containing breadcrumbs.
Greenergy is in a partnership with Brocklesby, a specialist in recycling edible oils that would previously have gone to landfill or compost, are now being converted for biofuel and energy production.
The fuel giant invested £50m in the biodiesel production facility at Immingham on the east coast to process used cooking oils, which are more complicated to process than "new" oils such as rapeseed.
It uses more than 20m litres a month of used cooking oil supplied from a range of food producers. However, extracting oil from foodstuffs is a new process.
The oils and fats are removed from the food through a process developed by Brocklesby and are then further purified by Greenergy.
The finished biodiesel is then blended into the diesel that Greenergy supplies to petrol stations nationally.
Any food solids that remain after processing are currently dried and composted or used to produce energy through anaerobic digestion.
Andrew Owens, chief executive of Greenergy, said: "The quantities of biodiesel that we're currently producing from solid food waste are small, but we're expecting to scale up so that this soon becomes a significant proportion of our biodiesel.
"To put it into context, just one of these new facilities could handle enough waste pies or crisps to fill a cruise ship. With multiple plants, the potential for this kind of technology to reduce fuel emissions is considerable."
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