If you drive a diesel vehicle then Chelmsford Bio-Diesel would be pleased to provide you with an alternative fuel. Our intention is to use local waste as fuel for local vehicles.

Chelmsford Bio-Diesel will collect 1200 litres of waste vegetable oil each week in Chelmsford. We will convert this into 1200 litres of bio-diesel to be sold to local people. We can only accommodate a limited number of applicants.

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Why use bio-diesel?

Environmental benefits include reducing nearly all forms of air pollution compared to conventional diesel, reducing the greenhouse gases which contribute to global warning, and being non-toxic and bio-degradable.

Why use locally sourced bio-diesel?

Although Bio-diesel is an excellent product the environmental positives are lost when multinational companies buy new vegetable oil produced in the Third World. Forests are being destroyed to create farm land not to produce food for local people, but to grow rapeseed for our motoring needs and as fossil fuels disappear this rapeseed will become more valuable and so less and less food will be grown. Until we know that producing bio-diesel is not going to destroy people’s livelihood and well being for our benefit in the western world then producing bio-diesel at a local scale using waste oil is the answer for a better and fairer environment.

A History of Bio-Diesel

Biodiesel has been around for over a century. Dr Rudolf Diesel actually invented the diesel engine to run on vegetable oil and in-fact when he presented his engine at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, his engine was running on a fuel derived fron peanut oil.

Prior to his death in 1913 he stated that; “The use of vegetable oil for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.” However due to the low cost of mineral oils at the time his engine was modified to run on such oils.