Green Party fights against biofuel from bones

In San Francisco, US, the Green Party is fighting against a proposed biofuel plant, claiming that the fossil fuel alternative has a negative effect on the environment.

Texas-based Darling International, a provider of rendering, recycling and recovery solutions to the food industry, owns the site, which currently converts the bones and fat from slaughtered animals into oils, is now looking to use the animal parts plus used cooking oil for the production of biodiesel.

Despite receiving support from the Port of San Francisco officials, the project is facing opposition from the city’s Green Party.

According to Eric Brooks, chairman of the Green Party’s sustainability working group: ‘Biofuel has got this good image, even with a lot of environmentalists, and biofuel is not good.’