Eight airlines have agreed to buy synthetic diesel fuel made from green waste to operate ground service equipment at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), local media reported Tuesday.
The airlines will buy up to 1.5M gallons of the “Green Fuel” starting in Y 2012, according to the Denver-based Rentech Inc., which will provide the fuel to the airlines.
The company says RenDiesel is made from Green waste, such as yard clippings and processed sewage sludge, and its so-called carbon footprint is near Zero.
The fuel will be biodegradable and virtually free of particulate, sulfur, aromatics and other emissions.
D. Hunt Ramsbottom, Rentech’s president and chief executive, said the fuel would make LAX ground service vehicles “among the cleanest and greenest of their kind.”
Rentech Inc. said it planned to produce the fuel from Y 2012 at anew plant to be built in Rialto in Colorado. The plant will produce about 600 bbls of fuel per day and about 35 megawatts of renewable electricity.
The airlines which have agreed to buy the fuel are Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, UPS Airlines and U.S. Airways.
Glen Tilton, board chairman of the Air Transport Association of America, which represents airlines, said “this transaction promises to be the first of many such green fuel purchase agreements by the commercial aviation industry.”
Gina Marie Lindsey, executive director of Los Angeles World Airports, hailed the agreement as “yet another environmentally friendly initiative that we and the airlines are pursuing at Los Angeles-area airports.”
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