Disneyland rail follows the green road
The five railroad trains at Disneyland in the US began running on biodiesel made with waste vegetable oil from the resort’s restaurants and hotels on 28 January.
Park officials tried a soyabean-based biodiesel starting in 2007 on the trains that circle a one-mile perimeter of the park. The project was abandoned in November 2008 following issues with storage underground.
Officials conceived the idea of recycling discarded cooking oil and turning it into biodiesel for the trains.
‘The improvement here is that it’s no longer using food for fuel,’ Frank Dela Vara, Disney’s director of environmental affairs, says. ‘There are no soyabeans grown in the Midwest to fuel our trains, just cooking oil that we’re already generating.’
Barrels of discarded oil are shipped to the Coachella Valley, mixed with a small portion of diesel fuel, then shipped back to Disneyland.
Park officials plan to run the Mark Twain paddlewheel steamboat, some cleaning equipment and light towers on the french-fry grease biodiesel in the future.
Park officials tried a soyabean-based biodiesel starting in 2007 on the trains that circle a one-mile perimeter of the park. The project was abandoned in November 2008 following issues with storage underground.
Officials conceived the idea of recycling discarded cooking oil and turning it into biodiesel for the trains.
‘The improvement here is that it’s no longer using food for fuel,’ Frank Dela Vara, Disney’s director of environmental affairs, says. ‘There are no soyabeans grown in the Midwest to fuel our trains, just cooking oil that we’re already generating.’
Barrels of discarded oil are shipped to the Coachella Valley, mixed with a small portion of diesel fuel, then shipped back to Disneyland.
Park officials plan to run the Mark Twain paddlewheel steamboat, some cleaning equipment and light towers on the french-fry grease biodiesel in the future.
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