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Chocoholics can assuage any guilt they may feel after a process was developed that turns the by-products of making chocolate into a biofuel - meaning you can eat your chocolate and be eco-friendly.
A truck, fuelled by the biofuel, will set out from Poole on the English south coast for Mali in West Africa this month on a charity mission.
"The chocolate waste used to be used in landfill, but now we can make it travel as biofuel," said organiser Andy Pag, who will be one of the two drivers.
Northwestern English firm Ecotec has taken waste from the chocolate manufacturing process, turned it into bio-ethanol and mixed it with vegetable oil to produce biodiesel.
"This is to show that you can have environmentally friendly biofuels and that you don't have to convert normal diesel engines to use it," Mr Pag said.
- Reuters
