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Southwark biodiesel firm Uptown Oil wins cross-party praise

Sunday 22 February=20 2009

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City Hall politicians last week paid a visit to a = railway arch=20 in a Southwark back street which is home to Uptown Oil, London's only = biodiesel=20 manufacturer.

Caroline Pidgeon AM at Uptown = Oil

Members of the London Assembly transport and environment committees = visited=20 the pioneering firm which is based in King James = Street.

The company collects used vegetable oil from London restaurants =96 = including=20 many in SE1 =96 and processes it into 100 per cent recycled = biodiesel.

Uptown Oil is London's = only=20 licensed biodiesel manufacturer and produces between 6,000 and 10,000 = litres per=20 week.

"This is a great Southwark company which is = making a=20 real difference to London's air quality," says Lib Dem Caroline=20 Pidgeon.

"From a waste product they are creating a fuel which creates far less = pollution than conventional diesel.

"The company has a licence to increase by threefold its weekly = production. I=20 hope they soon reach it and make an even greater contribution to = tackling=20 London's appalling air quality, which sees over 1,000 people die = prematurely in=20 the capital each year."

Conservative Roger Evans was also impressed: "The recovered fuel is = sold,=20 mostly to black cab drivers who usually know a good deal when they see = it. Not=20 only is it a good example of reuse, but the fuel = actually=20 burns cleaner producing fewer of the particulates that dirty our = windows=20 and irritate our lungs. A black cab running on biodiesel can pass its = emission=20 test without the need for expensive exhaust modifications.

"[Uptown Oil] estimate that the city's restaurants produce enough = waste oil=20 to fuel all London's black cabs and the bus fleet too, simultaneously = cutting=20 down carbon dioxide production and air pollution. They also employ ten = people=20 which is not to be sniffed at in these challenging times."

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