London Nov 20 (IANS) Waste coffee grounds will be used to help power some of London s buses from Monday according to transport authorities.
A biofuel created by blending oil extracted from coffee waste with diesel is to be added to the public transport fuel supply reports the BBC.
London-based technology firm bio-bean Ltd has said it has produced enough coffee oil to power one bus for a year.
Transport for London (TfL) has increasingly turned to using biofuels to reduce transport emissions.
Londoners create 200 000 tonnes of coffee waste a year according to bio-bean.
The company takes the used grounds from coffee shops and instant coffee factories and extracts oil from it in its factory which is then processed into a blended B20 biofuel.
"It s a great example of what can be done when we start to reimagine waste as an untapped resource " bio-bean founder Arthur Kay said.
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