Can you chip in to help firm’s biodiesel venture?

Jul 24 2008 by Jamie Robins, Gwent Gazette HOW green is your valley? That is the question being asked by directors at a pioneering Tredegar-based company who are trying to push recycling to new limits. David Palmer and Andrew Price are directors at Bio Tech Oils UK, a company based on the Tafarnaubach Industrial Estate, which manufactures European standard biodiesel using recycled chip fat. The company has recently been granted planning permission for a pump to sell their own brand of diesel from the front of the factory for 122.9p a litre. Getting hold of used cooking oil can be expensive but the demand for biodiesel is increasing all the time. The company is hoping local businesses, nursing homes and hospitals could support their recycling venture by supplying them with used cooking oil. It also has long-term aims of... [read full story]