London to use waste coffee grounds to power city's buses

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New Delhi: While people across the world use coffee to give a powerful kikstart to their day, London's transport authorities will be using the caffeine kick to help power some of the city's buses from Monday.

A biofuel created by blending oil extracted from waste coffee grounds with diesel is to be added to the public transport fuel supply, reports the BBC.

London-based technology firm bio-bean Ltd has said it has produced enough coffee oil to power one bus for a year.

Transport for London (TfL) has increasingly turned to using biofuels to reduce transport emissions.

Londoners create 200,000 tonnes of coffee waste a year, according to bio-bean.

The company takes the used grounds from coffee shops and instant coffee factories, and extracts oil from it in its factory which is then processed into a blended B20 biofuel.

"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.

(With IANS inputs)