Frylite’s Fuel of the Future
Concerns regarding the environment and the environmental challenges facing our planet are nothing new with daily reports and sound bites in the media predicting irreversible global climate change, rising green house gases and melting polar ice caps.
Yes, it’s true, our busy modern lifestyles are having an effect on all of these environmental changes that are taking place but what can we do on an individual level? Well the answer could be literally staring you in the face, yes, the vegetable oils used to cook the fish and chips that you might have enjoyed in the hotel bar today will be used to power vehicles up and down the country.
This is thanks to a new green initiative from Frylite, who in association with Queens University in Belfast will use the waste oil they collect from thousands of catering establishments across Ireland (including the Carlton Group of Hotels) and convert it in to bio diesel, a clean, green renewable fuel.
Speaking about the bio diesel project Eamon McCay, Managing Director for Frylite went on to explain, “bio diesel has many key advantages over traditional fossil fuels as it help reduce carbon emissions which are leading to global warming as well as reducing dangerous tailpipe emissions which are clogging up our streets in towns and cities across Ireland. Before we decided to develop the bio diesel plant we were shipping these waste oils overseas and they were being used to produce bio diesel which is in common use throughout Europe. Having examined various alternatives the logical progression was to use the million of litres of waste oil that we collect throughout Ireland every year and put it to better use to clean up our own towns and cities.”
What started as a simple business idea has now become a reality and before building a full scale plant next to the company’s headquarters in Strabane, Frylite will initially run a pilot project producing around 160,000 litres a month. Speaking about further developments Eamon went on to conclude “we’re currently in discussions with a variety of local authorities and expect to sell volume quantities of bio diesel to a number of councils throughout Northern Ireland who will use it to power their fleets of vehicles. After the pilot project, the sky’s the limit and we plan to upscale production and roll out the bio diesel business throughout Ireland so that all towns from Mizen head to Malin Head can enjoy the benefits of this new fuel of the future”
For further information about Frylite’s biodiesel plans please contact Jonathan McLaughlin, Frylite’s Group Marketing Manager on 048 71 383133.