On Boeing’s 100th anniversary, South African Airways celebrated Africa’s first sustainable biofuel flight. The flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town, operated by a Boeing 737-800, used biojet fuel produced from Sunchem’s nicotine-free tobacco plant Solaris, refined by AltAir Fuels, and supplied by SkyNRG. Sunchem and SkyNRG are both RSB-certified, and AltAir is in the process of RSB certification.
This flight and project serves as inspiration for others around the world that it is possible to produce environmentally sustainable and socially responsible biofuel that improves lives of many smallholder farmers and helps with job salvation and poverty alleviation. Project Solaris in the Limpopo region is a great example of working in partnership with others to bring workable solutions to South Africa. With Boeing’s support, RSB and WWF-SA are working in this project to ensure smallholders can compete with commercial farming operations in supplying feedstock to biofuel producers.
RSB hopes these positive impacts can be duplicated around the world in various regions with diverse feedstocks, and that there will be more flights like this one so that aviation can become more sustainable and reduce its impact on GHG emissions.
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This flight and project serves as inspiration for others around the world that it is possible to produce environmentally sustainable and socially responsible biofuel that improves lives of many smallholder farmers and helps with job salvation and poverty alleviation. Project Solaris in the Limpopo region is a great example of working in partnership with others to bring workable solutions to South Africa. With Boeing’s support, RSB and WWF-SA are working in this project to ensure smallholders can compete with commercial farming operations in supplying feedstock to biofuel producers.
RSB hopes these positive impacts can be duplicated around the world in various regions with diverse feedstocks, and that there will be more flights like this one so that aviation can become more sustainable and reduce its impact on GHG emissions.
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