The war in Ukraine has forced a council to shelve its plans to fuel its vehicles with vegetable oil.
A 12-week trial of the fuel in bin lorries and street cleaning wagons by Selby District Council cut 70 tonnes of carbon emissions, a report said.
But a permanent switch from diesel was now "financially unsustainable" due to war-inflated vegetable oil prices."It was a good trial and successful until Russia invaded Ukraine - in essence that's what killed it," he said. Hydrogenated vegetable oil , made from waste fats and vegetable oils, is renewable, fully biodegradable and can be used in any engine without modifications.
The price of HVO has risen at a faster rate than fossil diesel, according to the council's report, and is now 35p per litre more expensive.It would cost the authority £110,000 per year more to fully adopt HVO, the report said.environmental services firm Urbaser, which carried out the trial, recommended that the council make the permanent switch to HVO, which it sources from Nestle in the Netherlands.
A council officer said a switch to HVO could be made "literally overnight" if a decision was taken to do so at a later date.but the council officer said it was "likely they will have to switch back to diesel in the short term as well".
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