United Kingdom has introduced a bus powered entirely by human and food waste. The bus with a seating capacity of 40 people is named Bio-bus. The bus may provide a sustainable way of fuelling public transport reducing on pollution in cities. The first passengers to board the Bio-Bus were visitors to the UK who were commuting from Bristol Airport to the city of Bath. Bath Bus Company is operating this service and will be introduced to wider areas soon.

The Bio-Bus works on gas generated from sewage and food waste that's unfit for human consumption. It helps vastly improve urban air quality as it produces far less emissions than traditional diesel engines. The bus can travel up to 300km on a full tank of gas produced at GENeco's Bristol sewage treatment plant. Running on waste products makes them renewable and sustainable. A full tank of gas for the bio-bus needs approx the annual waste of five people.

Look at the amazing advertisement on the body of the bus that shows the power of the 5 people !!

GENeco is the first company in UK to start injecting gas generated from food waste and sewage into the national gas grid network. Bristol sewage treatment works treats around 75 million cubic metres of sewage waste and 35,000 tonnes of food waste, collected from households, supermarkets and food manufacturers, every year. Through a process, known as anaerobic digestion, 17 million cubic metres of biomethane is generated annually at the Bristol plant. "Through treating sewage and food that is unfit for human consumption we are able to produce enough biomethane to provide a significant supply of gas to the national gas network that?s capable of powering almost 8,500 homes as well as fuelling the Bio—Bus" GENeco general manager Mohammed Saddiq said. The home generated green gas, biomethane is capable of replacing around 10% of the UK?s domestic gas needs.

The Bio-Bus has received support from many companies like the manufacturer of the bus, Scania, as well as companies including Roadgas, CNG Services Ltd, Dampney's Agri Environmental, Trant, Grontmij and AIR Decker. The Bio-Bus helps demonstrate the true value of separate food waste collections, which are now obligatory in many regions of UK.

First West of England had applied for a grant to run 110 gas-powered double-decker buses in Bristol. Wessex Bus and partners GENeco had also put in a £2.5m bid to fund 20 bio-buses in the city by 2019.

The gas produced by Bristol sewage treatment works in Avonmouth, run by Wessex Water's renewable energy company GENeco, is now instead injected into the national gas network.

First Bristol confirmed that the number two "poo bus" service is no longer running.Ian Drury, from GENeco, said while the firm was disappointed the bids were unsuccessful, the pilot project "started a global debate on how biomethane buses running on renewable sources could significantly reduce air emissions in cities around the world".

He added that more than 70 biomethane buses were given the go-ahead by The Office for Low Emission Vehicles to run in other areas