Biodiesel from ‘waste chocolate’?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who coined the term ‘waste chocolate’? Obviously none of us here in the GreenDimes office…

Anyway, I read a sweet (ha ha) article today about ‘the first carbon neutral journey across the Sahara’-which in and of itself is a really cool thing. But that’s not all, folks- the Ford Iveco Cargo truck carrying two adventurers from England to Timbuktu is being run on chocolate. Mmmm, that sounds like my kind of adventure.

The 4,500 mile journey will likely take three weeks and be fueled entirely on cocoa butter extracted from a confectioner’s ‘misshapen’ chocolate ‘rejects’. I digress, but the words misshapen and reject don’t belong as adjectives of chocolate. Really, it’s offensive.

Not offensive, however, is using waste to fuel transportation. And just think about how good the streets would smell if we were all burning chocolate instead of gasoline.

Mmmm, yummy environmentalism… I like it.

-Kendra