Nature Air’s Dedicated To Clean
Energy
Every litre of household
cooking oil that is flushed down the drain pollutes nearly one
million litres of Costa Rican river waters. In an effort to keep
these waters clean NatureAir, the world’s first carbon neutral
airline, has started Costa Rica’s first alternative fueling station.
Through its own aviation fueling company – Aerotica, sinc June of
2008, Aerotica the airline has been providing bio-diesel in addition
to its sales of aviation and jet fuel. This bio-diesel is produced
from a mixture of recycled vegetable and cooking oils, and can be
run in any vehicle accustomed to diesel.
NatureAir is the first airline in Central America to run its entire
ground operations equipment and fleet of diesel vehicles off of this
biodegradable fuel. This alternative fuel is estimated to reduce
nearly 49,256 gallons of CO2 emissions per year.
“This program is an important milestone in NatureAir’s dedication to
protecting the environment and conserving our nature resources,”
said NatureAir Founder and CEO Alex E. Khajavi. “We wanted to do
something beyond our carbon-neutrality airline program. The world’s
natural resources are precious and this alternative fuel program is
a step in the right direction to keeping our air and waters
healthy.”
A majority of the recycled vegetable oil comes from NatureAir
employees, each of whom were given their own canisters for
collecting cooking oil in their homes to later bring the previously
discarded oil to Aerotica where it is then converted to bio-diesel.
The fuel helps keep the country’s waters free from pollution,
significantly reduces smog production, and keeps vehicle motors
cleaner than regular diesel or gasoline.
Currently Aerotica is a private fueling station for only personal
company distribution and use but with the help of the Costa Rican
government that may soon change. NatureAir is in talks with the
government to be able to open Aerotica bio-fuel sales to other Costa
Rican companies.
“Aerotica has been selling regular gasoline for over 50 years,
therefore it was a proud day when we were able to bring the next
generation of sustainable and responsible fuel to Costa Rica. While
we may be the first to use bio-diesel, we certainly hope other
companies will soon have the capabilities to run their vehicles off
of cleaner and less expensive sources of energy,” said Mr. Khajavi.
To learn more about NatueAir’s bio-diesel efforts visit its Nature
Blog:
http://blog.natureair.com/. NatureAir welcomes your
questions and comments on this topic at its educational, social
networking forum. |
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