ZFS seeks to benefit its customers, community and the environment by distributing pure soy biodiesel. Biodiesel is nontoxic, degrades about four times faster than petroleum diesel and has lubrication enhancing abilities for diesel engines.
Biodiesel offers many additional benefits. A 2 percent blend of biodiesel in Michigan’s diesel fuel would:
- Reduce poisonous carbon monoxide emissions by 185,000 pounds
- Reduce hazardous diesel particulate matter emissions by about 135,000 pounds
- Reduce acid rain-causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 88,000 pounds
Biodiesel production facilities in Michigan would:
- Directly add about $32 million annually to Michigan’s economy
- Directly create the equivalent of 80 full-time jobs
- Indirectly generate $5 million in output
- Indirectly create 355 job