Andy Pag, 34, and John Grimshaw, 39, made the 2,600-mile trip in a cool truck, using bio-diesel made from waste chocolate.
The BioTruck is a “recycled” 1989 Ford Iveco Cargo flatbed that was rescued from the scrap heap.
The trip was fuelled by 2,000 litres of bio-diesel made from 4,000 kilograms of chocolate – the equivalent of 80,000 chocolate bars. The fuel was made from cocoa butter extracted from waste chocolate.
They Set off from John’s home at Poole, Dorset on November 26 and arrived in Mali, West Africa on Boxing day.
They overcame crazy sand storms and corrupt customs officials and drove through a town where days later al-Qaeda terrorists shot dead a French family, to deliver a biodiesel processing unit and the vans to a charity.
Andy said: “We wanted to do a trip that wouldn’t have a detrimental effect on the environment.”
After successfully finishing the first carbon-neutral trip across the Sahara they have a cool new plan: “A flight to China in a plane powered by rubbish.”
“It’s a bit like ‘Back To The Future’ where they put banana skins in at one end to make it fly,” said Mr Pag, from Croydon in south London.
“That’s science fiction but there is this technology that’s a little bit like that.
“Anything that goes to landfill sites – used tyres, wrapping paper, anything you put in your bin at home – can be used to make fuel.”
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Great no carbon;
but this doesnt prove anything.
If we use chocolate, it’ll run out eventually just like conventional fuels
GReat that somepeople act on great ideas, it’s getting the ball rolling!