New Orleans Biodiesel Initiative (NOBI)

PLEASE NOTE!

The New Orleans Biodiesel Initiative was active in the spring and summer of 2006 as a biodiesel processing enterprise in post-Katrina New Orleans. The Big Easy loves its fried food, producing hundreds of thousands of gallons of waste vegetable oil each year. Furthermore, the warm climate is ideal for running vehicles on B100 or even Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO). In 2006, Topher Mira and Bengy Adler began building the infrastructure to produce several thousand gallons of biodiesel a year. Throughout the winter and spring, they worked on developing a processor, filtration system and contracting with restaurants throughout the city to collect their waste vegetable oil.

In 2007, an independent company called the New Orleans Biofuel Initiative was formed to produce and sell biodiesel in New Orleans. For more information, visit www.nobifuel.com.