As part of an effort to reduce its impact on the environment, Blood Assurance is fueling one of its buses with a renewable biofuel made from chicken fat.
Blood Assurance, the region’s blood bank, has been partnering with local biofuel company TrimChick, a subsidiary of Southeastern Sales, for the past six months to test out the fuel in one of its buses, said area manager Jason Hodges.
If all goes well with a maintenance check on the bus, scheduled for later this week, the blood bank will expand the fuel change to the rest of its eight-bus fleet, he said.
The blood bank’s donation buses each use 300 gallons of diesel fuel every month, but biofuel gives about the same mileage, Mr. Hodges said.
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Times Free Press