Pump at Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank

Duquesne, PA

Quick facts:

• First biodiesel tank installed as a part of Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities’ “Clean Pump Initiative”
• First biodiesel/diesel pump in region where users can choose the blend of biodiesel they want to use with the turn of a dial
• 20’ x 8’ x 8’ 5,000 gallon tank split biodiesel-diesel tank from Clean Emission Fluids
• In its first year, the Clean Pump Initiative is expected to reduce the Food Bank’s diesel consumption by one third (food bank currently consumes approximately 33,000 gallons of diesel annually)
• This change will reduce the Food Bank’s carbon footprint by about 400 tons or about three times the volume of the GPCFB building (8.2 million square feet)