Construction Industry Going Green

Construction Equipment world over are responsible for a huge amount of fossil fuel usage. Now many construction companies have started going for bio diesel as a fuel source. Recently there was a news about Destiny USA going for Biodiesel. Early in 2006, 'Case construction USA' started using 5 % Biodiesel for its equipments. Destiny is using a 100% bio diesel in their equipments.

Even though the number of companies switching are very few, the trend is surely catching on. There is also a news about countries going to make it mandatory for construction companies to use green fuels in their equipment. The construction industry is a very high profit sector where profits may go up to 100 % or sometime, even more of what they spent initially. Now its only reasonable that this Industry pays its dues.

Another news about construction industries going for biodiesel is from Rwanda where the National University of Technology is pushing the government to run its construction vehicles and maintenance vehicles on Bio diesel which is expected to be produced in the near future by farmers who where previously engaged in subsistence farming. Similar campaigns are also taking shape in other east African Nations. Rwanda usually leads the East African Nations in going green. They where the first to ban plastic bags completely in a whole country in Africa, so may be, they might just do this too.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently released a report that identified construction equipment as one of the largest sources of diesel pollution.

Biodiesel producers world over are trying to sell their fuel directly to companies with large diesel needs so, we might start hearing more news of Construction Industries Smelling like French Fries soon.




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