Wonderful Truck – It Runs on Chocolate!

Of this truck is not running on a chocolate river, we mean a new kind of biodiesel made from “waste chocolate” (oxymoron, isn’t it? Can you imagine that the chocolate can be “waste”?)
Our hero is 1989 Ford Iveco Cargo. It was almost destroyed when adventurers and “petrolheads” Andy Pag and John Grimshaw found it at some dump, repaired and brought back to life. Then they decided to make a journey on this old-new truck which at the result took four weeks to get from their home in the UK to Timbuktu in the West African country of Mali. They drove more than 5000 miles and their goal was to carry out carbon negative trip i.e. they wanted to show that their old shabby truck created no pollution.

The two brave men proved that people can make such eco-friendly journeys on alternative fuel. It is not necessary to use new advanced technologies to be green. The old European Ford was taken from the scrapyard to show everyone that the key element for environmental progress is recycling. Their aim is to prove that those trucks and cars that are considered to be dead can be brought back to life and hit the road as they did being young.
The truck was left in Mali as well as the biodiesel production unit. Now local house-wives can recycle their used cooking oil into bio-fuel.
However, that is not the end of the story. Pag and Grimshaw are going to fly to China on an airplane which uses a carbon-neutral fuel made from landfill waste. Cool, isn’t it?
But what would you prefer a “Chocolate Truck” or a “Garbage Plane.”?
[VIA: blogs.cars.com]