UK riders love the new organic, eco-friendly and local bus!
Bristol, a town in the south of Great Britain, proudly bears its title of European Green Capital 2015.
To justify this honor, it has put into circulation a Bio Bus, a bus that can accommodate 40 passengers .
Its particularity?
It fuels thanks to the reprocessing of excrement mixed with food waste, all generated by the city's wastewater treatment plant.
It's organic, eco-friendly and local !
Inaugurated in November 2014, it entered service in 2015 to serve the city's line 2.
The good news is that this biogas from the fermentation of organic matter has no more smell than that of natural gas.
Its ecological balance is very honorable.
80% nitrogen oxide and 20 to 30% less CO2 than a diesel engine and hardly any fine particles, according to a journalist from the Guardian, who tested this public transport.
It can run for 300 km with a "full" which corresponds to the droppings of 5 people for a year .
To decorate its bodywork, the company that markets this bus, GENeco, has chosen to represent people doing their business in the toilet, while reading or on the phone.
An offbeat way of remembering that passengers are the suppliers of the energy needed for their bus travel!
An initiative well accepted by users of the Bio-Bus, according to Mohammed Saddiq, the manager of GENeco:“gas-powered vehicles have an important role to play in improving air quality in British cities, but the 'Bio-Bus' goes beyond that and is powered by people who live in the surrounding area, and presumably even by those who take this bus,” he explains.
And if we were inspired by it in France? After electric buses, buses running on poo :do you like it? Would you be willing to use them? Tell us in the comments.
