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Used cooking oil from KFCs in India to be converted to biodiesel

Plantations International News Yum! Restaurants India Pvt Ltd., which operates KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut in India, has signed an agreement with Advait to collect its used cooking oil (UCO) from KFC in the Andhra and Telangana regions.  Yum! is aggressively expanding its presence in India. Advait, the only UCO collector in India certified by the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification, will convert the UCO into biodiesel or export the feedstock for biodiesel processing in Europe. Advait currently collects UCO in four South Indian states.  Advait aims to start collecting UCO throughout India with more than 15 collection yards in [...]

Canadian researchers: Sugar corn could fuel ethanol production

Plantations International News Canadian farmers might one day grow sugar corn for a potentially huge alternative fuels market through a new project involving University of Guelph researchers. Along with scientists from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), and Western University, the Guelph researchers will study sugar corn varieties whose higher sucrose concentrations might make them more suitable for making ethanol. The sugar comes from juices in corn stalks, similar to sugar from Brazilian sugar cane, which are then pressed to collect the juice, which is fermented into ethanol. Project leader Professor Brandon Gilroyed, [...]

Amazon increasing: Adaptation begins in the house

Plantations International Information Initially published on CIFOR's Woodland News. By Harry Pearl. Smallholders living along the Amazon river in Brazil have got utilized to adapting. Neil Palmer/CIATFor hundreds of hundreds of country families eking out a living in Brazil's Amazon.com tidewater, living with flooding is a day-to-day truth. However with environment modification suggestioned to speed up sea-level increase, tidal inundation is readied to intensify. Exactly how could local government aid smallholders-- recognized in your area as caboclos-- to adapt? Baseding on Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, a scientist at the Facility for International Forestry Research study (CIFOR), component of the solution could be right [...]

Pacific Biodiesel receives Platinum Certified Clean Fleet award

Plantations International News Pacific Biodiesel Logistics, the grease collection division of Hawaii-based biodiesel technology firm Pacific Biodiesel, has received the Platinum Certified Clean Fleet award from Blue Planet Foundation and Honolulu Clean Cities as part of the new Hawaii Clean Fleets certification program. The platinum certification is the program’s most prestigious level, reserved for public or commercial fleets that exclusively use renewable fuels or electricity for all vehicles in their fleets. Only one other organization—Extended Horizons Inc.—received the same platinum award. Three additional organizations—Hawaii Electric Light Co., the Honolulu Board of Water Supply and Dependable Hawaiian Express—received Certified Clean Fleet awards, [...]

Sweet: Chocolate goes climate-positive with carbon insetting

Plantations International Information By Patrick Fortyr, Woodland Finest Consulting GmbH-- CO2OL Photo by © ForestFinancePeople love delicious chocolate. Last year's worldwide intake of this scrumptious as well as ageless reward was roughly 8 million tonnes, as more and also more people can manage it. Specifically, demand is increasing dramatically in in the new mid courses of China and also India. The delicious chocolate industry is highly affordable with global players dominating the marketplace. For tiny producers there is only one means to be successful: remarkable quality and a special selling proposal. Customers are eager to pay majestically for marvelous cru costs [...]

Indonesia’s very first ‘conservation district’– a potential model for change

Plantations International News Initially released on the Preservation International Blog. By Bruno Vander Velde The world enjoyed as wildfires raged partly of Indonesia last month, loading the skies with smoke and even causing the nation's head of state to shorten a journey to Washington. Not making headings, nonetheless, is a recent little good news from the Southeast Oriental nation. In October, West Papua proclaimed itself a "preservation district," developing a legal structure for preservation initiatives in among Indonesia's most stunning areas-- as well as a possible model for a lot more reliable conservation throughout the island chain. "It's a bold vision [...]

REG holds ribbon-cutting ceremony for 100 MMgy Grays Harbor plant

Plantations International News By Renewable Energy Group Inc. | September 15, 2015 Renewable Energy Group Inc. celebrated the formal opening of the newest addition to its fleet of biomass-based diesel refineries Sept. 14 with a ribbon cutting at REG Grays Harbor LLC. REG leaders were joined by state and local business, government and community leaders for the ceremony marking the transition to REG’s ownership of the former Imperium Grays Harbor 100 MMgy biodiesel production and terminal facility. “REG Grays Harbor’s addition to REG is a significant milestone for our company,” said Daniel J. Oh, president and CEO, noting that the plant [...]

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