What are some of the benefits of producing and using biodiesel in an urban area?
One great advantage of biodiesel fuel is that it is much less carcinogenic and less toxic than diesel fuel exhaust. Part of our mission is to try to concentrate the sales of our fuel in the most emissions-distressed areas of our city, so that we can maximize the emissions health benefits where they’re needed most. Speaking of emissions-distressed areas, the South Bronx Environmental Health and Policy Study recently released findings from a study done with NYU about there being a 17 percent asthma rate among children in the South Bronx, twice the city average and three times the national average. That’s right. There’s very high asthma rates in the South Bronx, Sunset Park and some of our other industrial areas, neighborhoods with rates as high as one in four kids. I don’t think the answer is getting rid of industry, but cleaning it up. And Tri-State Biodiesel really hopes to be a part of that effort. How do you pitch this idea to prospective partners and restaurants? This is a new indus
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