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Royal Dutch Shell and Bio-bean, a clean technology company, said on Monday they will use waste grounds to help fuel some of London’s buses.

A new biofuel, which contains part coffee oil, will be added to the London bus fuel supply chain where it will be used without the need for modification, the companies said in a statement.

Bio-bean and partner Argent Energy have so far produced enough coffee oil to power one bus for a year. 6,000 litres of coffee oil can help power the equivalent of one London bus for a year.  

Bio-bean said the average Londoner drinks 2.3 cups of coffee a day, producing over 200,000 tons of waste a year. The company can collect this waste and then dry and process it to extract coffee oil.

“It’s a great example of what can be done when we start to reimagine waste as an untapped resource,” bio-bean founder Arthur Kay said.

London Transport operator is already using a fuel made with used cooking oil from the catering industry.

London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said last month that his city has a “health crisis….caused directly by poor-quality air.” The government is taking steps to discourage people from driving cars that do not meet European Union emissions requirements.

Edited from Reuters

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