Andy Pag: Respected eco-adventurer

Andy Pag, is a respected eco-adventurer with a proven track record of organising high profile expeditions that promote sustainability. In 2007 he led the world's first Carbon Negative Expedition to Timbuktu in a chocolate-powered Biotruck with fuel made from waste cocoa butter.

Turning waste into energy was also at the heart of another high profile project that Andy founded, "The Grease to Greece Rally" where teams had to fuel their cars from London to Athens using only waste cooking oil, scavenged from restaurants along the way.

Andy, a qualified engineer, has been organising vehicle based expeditions around the world for over 12 years, and is an award winning TV journalist and filmmaker. He's an expedition leader, speaks 4 languages, and can change a lorry clutch by the side of the road with some rope and a few spanners. He holds a microlight pilot's license and is currently half way to qualifying as a paraglider pilot.

But the latest Biotruck expedition is total rubbish! Andy is using a bus salvaged from the scrap yard and has refurbished it using a mixture of waste materials (carpet offcuts, old tables and shopping baskets) and cutting edge sustainable energy technology. Not only is the bus made from rubbish, it runs on rubbish too; using energy-from-waste technology, it transforms waste cooking oil into fuel, and generates hydrogen from the sun to boost the fuel efficiency.

Andy is attempting to drive around the world on a CO2 budget of 2 tonnes. This is the amount of carbon emissions which scientist have concluded that every person on the planet will personally have to meet by 2050 if we are to stave off the worst impacts of manmade climate change. In the UK and US average levels are currently about 10-15 tonnes per person, and during the journey Andy will document the attitudes of people and places towards carbon reduction.

Andy Pag

Biotruck Expedition Organiser