Briquettes made from fallen leaves! A new niche in the biofuel market? Technology that turns fallen leaves into “magic” logs How to make logs from fallen leaves

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Autumn fallen tree leaves are not just trash. By decomposing in the soil, they add mineral and organic substances to it, structure the soil, improving its quality. The gradual destruction of fallen leaves creates conditions for the development of soil microflora and fauna, which, on the one hand, performs the work of processing leaves, and on the other hand, prevents the development of organisms pathogenic to trees.

In the forest, no one prepares the soil - nature makes it itself from the material it receives annually - fallen leaves. The forest floor of their rotted leaves nourishes the trees and protects their health.

During the Leningrad siege, leaves in the parks were not removed and the grass was not mowed. There was no time for that. And when, 30-40 years later, they began to cut down old trees, park workers examined the annual rings on the cut trunks and correlated them with the years of formation. It turned out that the widest and brightest annual rings on the trunks were formed just during the war years, when the trees were in a state close to the forest.

In recent years, the removal or burning of leaves has ceased to be treated as the only possible actions for their collection. They are not swept away completely; they tend to be left in the soil. This achieves a reduction in removal costs, saving landfills, and also maintains the structure and fertility of the soil.

You can process fallen leaves into a fine fraction and leave them right there on your lawns. In the spring, grass will grow through the crushed leaves, and the rotted leaves will gradually turn into humus.

In Moscow, in May 2010, the city government issued decree N 386-PP stating that leaves should not be removed from lawns. If you see that leaves are being removed from your yard, call the hotline of the Department of Environmental Management. This cleaning is not legal.

The struggle and unity of opposites

Full-fledged lawns, the so-called “English” ones, are necessary in the city both from an aesthetic and environmental point of view. The roots of lawn grasses, densely intertwined with each other, hold the soil together, preventing contaminated soil from turning into toxic dust that the wind blows into the faces of pedestrians. Lawn grasses themselves are able to live on contaminated soil and clean it by sucking pollutants from the soil and accumulating them in their green parts. When mowing, these toxic substances accumulated in the leaves are “packaged” and ready for disposal, and the lawn continues to grow and again act as a living filter.

Professional gardeners say that a tree and a lawn are always in conflict. They are inhabitants of different ecosystems. The tree needs nutrients from its own leaves, and the lawn is sustainable when it is kept clean and regularly mowed. Most of the tree species used in parks are originally forest dwellers, and the ideal for them will always be native and familiar - forest soil, created year after year from fallen leaves with numerous microorganisms. Thus, fallen leaves are contraindicated for lawns, but trees need them. Since the leaves rot, they recreate the fertility of the earth. Typically lost in cities.

Disposal of fallen leaves

If we turn to the Western experience of collecting leaves in cities, then fallen leaves are collected only once a year, when all the trees completely shed their leaves. Is it really necessary to rake leaves from one area several times a season, as is customary to do here? Experts say it may even be harmful to the soil in parks and gardens. And one-time cleaning is economical and reasonable in a European way.

However, the number of all kinds of clever devices for collecting leaves is growing every year. For example, a hand-held blower with a pipe that is worn on the back. But as soon as this device began to appear here, in Europe there were demands for its ban due to the harm to the health of the person wearing it.

Vacuum cleaners, or rather leaf blowers, are produced from portable, backpack ones, with a small volume of loading hopper, to mobile ones, towed by garden equipment. A clogged suction pipe is a common problem with these types of machines. When it is necessary to remove leaves from large, relatively flat areas, vacuum cleaners with a large receiving hopper are used, which are placed on special chassis and towed by tractors. The suction pipe of such machines also often becomes clogged. Such machines also cause sharp criticism, since they suck in all kinds of small fauna along with the leaves.

The Leafeater has recently been supplied to Russia, a leaf harvester capable of handling any kind of waste – dry or wet, sweeping bottles, cigarette butts, pieces of paper, etc. into its hopper in addition to leaves and grass. The mechanical machine is easy to operate, reliable and durable. Towed by any garden tractor, the Leafeater has a small turning radius and a low weight of about 150 kilograms, so it does not damage the lawn or plow up the soil. Leafeater has a spacious hopper for loading leaves. The innovative design of the machine completely eliminates the possibility of blocking the mechanism. In Sweden, Leafeater is used in city parks, gardens, zoos, cemeteries, private plots, and farms. In addition to Russia, these machines are supplied to other European countries - Finland, Spain, Estonia.

Harvesting rank report card

In the gardening system, all objects are divided into classes and categories depending on their purpose and location. In St. Petersburg, for example, there are 5 classes of objects, with different requirements for maintenance and intensity of care. The highest cost standards are established for the maintenance of class I objects “the city’s most important places in terms of location and value, the most visited city parks, gardens, public gardens, areas near public and historical buildings and structures, the most important street highways.” There, cleaning is carried out several times a day in the fall. Class II is “district facilities: parks, gardens, squares, boulevards, streets, roads and driveways.” Class III includes green spaces of local importance - intra-block landscaping and neighborhood gardens. Class IV includes landscape and historical parks, landscaping facilities of various departments, schools, hospitals, and preschool institutions. Class V includes forest parks and forests within city limits. Fallen leaves are intended to be left only in forest parks, urban forests and partly in landscape and historical parks.

Disposal of collected leaves is usually carried out outside the city limits. It should not remain on the territory, collected in heaps - this is contrary to sanitary standards and rules for the operation of green spaces. As we see, the rules in St. Petersburg directly contradict those in Moscow. Leaves should not be burned - this is dangerous from an environmental point of view, since all accumulated toxic substances enter the air. Burning garbage, including leaves, is prohibited within the city. The removal of collected leaves must be provided for by the operating organization and the owner.

The disposal of leaves must be approached selectively, that is, the issue must be resolved for each green space object separately, taking into account all its features. But besides burning and processing into compost, which is considered inappropriate, fallen leaves can serve as raw materials for the most unexpected things.

The simplest solution - distilling ethyl alcohol from leaves, like sawdust, has not been implemented for some reason.

So far, Birmingham residents Peter Morrison and Sharon Warmington, who created the company BioFuels International, have managed to make good money from leaf fall.

The company specializes in the production of logs from fallen leaves. This is not just a business, but a fight for the environment under the slogans of saving the environment and against the greenhouse effect. Each Leaf Log log weighs just over one kilogram and is about thirty centimeters long. According to studies, it turned out that leaves left to rot on the ground, when decomposing, emit methane, which, when released into the atmosphere, is 20 times higher than the negative indicators of carbon dioxide. Methane is what heats the room when using logs from BioFuels International, but in this case carbon dioxide, which the tree previously received from the air, enters the atmosphere. Thus, firewood from fallen leaves has double benefits for the environment. In the UK, a pack of 10 Leaf Logs costs £35 or $56, with free domestic delivery. The burning time of one “log” is 2-3 hours, which is three times longer than its natural counterpart.

This type of fuel is becoming increasingly popular in England, where last year alone 50,000 leaves fell from each major tree, amounting to a total of approximately a million tons.

So, enterprising Birmingham residents have an almost inexhaustible resource. The success of the new technology for creating “deciduous” firewood interested businessmen in other countries, and last year orders began to arrive from abroad, which, if approved by the British, would allow the creation of similar franchise enterprises around the world.

By the way, they tried to use fallen leaves in construction, making cladding panels from them. However, things didn’t work out, but the technology remained. Now a Japanese company is using it to produce “healing” green tea panels. But these are no longer fallen leaves, but specially collected ones.

The New York company VerTerra went even further. She produced disposable plates and cups made from fallen leaves. The dishes are made using a special technology using steam and heat. Moreover, no chemicals are used in its production. An important feature of this cookware is that it can be used in the microwave, oven and refrigerator. The price of one plate is approximately 1 dollar.

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Briquettes made from fallen leaves! A new niche in the biofuel market?

There are two opposing points of view regarding the need to collect leaves in parks and gardens. Some experts complain that pests and pathogens overwinter in fallen leaves (this, however, applies more to fruit and berry plants), and therefore, they say, removing leaves benefits the trees. Others remind that fallen leaves are a valuable fertilizer (feeding not only trees), and besides, they protect the soil from freezing, allowing spring grasses to begin their development while still under the snow. And therefore, collecting leaves causes damage to green spaces.

But our heroes from Birmingham look at fallen leaves from a completely different angle: for them it is a source of income, the basis of a business that goes under the banner of the fight for the environment and against the notorious global warming. Peter Morrison and Sharon Warmington and their company BioFuels International turn fallen leaves into logs - Leaf Log.

In Britain alone, the weight of leaves falling in one autumn is about a million tons (50 thousand leaves per large tree). It is, of course, unrealistic to collect them all, but even a small fraction from this free source is a good help in reducing the burning of fossil hydrocarbons.

After all, any kind of mass procurement of firewood (which exists even now even in fully developed countries) means deforestation with all that it entails. But why not give up a cozy (and so traditional) home? For many people living in detached homes, the alternative of natural gas fireplaces is not an option at all. And those mean burning fossil fuels - also not the best solution.

It is the latter that is released during the burning of leaves in the fireplace, while the carbon taken by the tree from the air during the previous summer enters the atmosphere. As you can see, the use of fallen leaves as fuel has a double positive effect on the environment.

There is now an entire factory in Birmingham producing Leaf Log. And he has yet to cover the vast expanses of Birmingham alone with recycling - in this city and its environs, municipal services annually collect and transport 16 thousand tons of autumn leaves to landfill. What can we say about spreading the idea throughout the country.

But maybe the idea is not worth it? Anyone who has tried to burn autumn leaves, often damp from rain, collected in a dense heap in the corner of the front garden, knows that they burn reluctantly. And it seems that using such fuel for heating is a strange activity. However, dried and properly compressed fallen leaves are a high-calorie fuel.

The technology for producing such eco-logs is not only about drying and compacting biomass (by the way, about one unpressed “big black garbage bag” with leaves is consumed per log). The British add wax to the final product, which is a binder and also additional fuel. The ingredient ratio is 70% leaves and 30% wax, so Birmingham logs are 70% carbon neutral.

Independent testing has shown that Leaf Log firewood produces 27.84 megajoules of energy per kilogram, which is comparable in combustion value to high-quality coal and more than wood. In this case, one log burns continuously for 2-3 hours, which is three times longer than a wooden block of the same weight. And the harmful “exhaust” from such a log is small.

A pack of ten Leaf Logs costs £35 ($56) including national delivery, which BioFuels International says is comparable to competing eco-friendly products called "synthetic firewood" for fireplaces and stoves made from sawdust. But at the same time, the latter contain up to 70% wax. However, wood processing waste also came to the attention of BioFuels. Following the leaf logs, the company has developed sawdust-based firewood - according to Rustic Log's own recipe.

The efforts of the inventor and his associate did not go unnoticed, which allowed them to develop their business. So, back in February 2008, Morrison and Warmington won a prize of 40 thousand pounds from Shell UK for a promising “green” idea. Three months later, the newborn company received new funding from sponsors to expand Leaf Log technology beyond Britain.

In 2008-2009, BioFuels was a success in a whole series of environmental exhibitions. And several more different awards were collected by such seemingly simple “wood from leaves.” Tellingly, some of the prizes went to Birmingham inventors not for “conscious ecology”, but for a “cool business idea.”

Along the way, the company expanded the list of parks and forestry enterprises with the owners of which an agreement was reached on the collection of leaves. This only benefits the owners: the leaves from the plant were usually collected and exported, for which a lot of money was spent.

Well, this fall, several companies from different countries approached the creators of BioFuels International, expressing interest in their own production of Leaf Log under a license from a British company. It turned out that trading last year’s leaves is a very promising activity.

Leaf Log is now even sold in liquor stores. According to Morrison’s definition, it’s nice to buy a bottle of wine, a new DVD and one “eco log”, and then sit comfortably in the living room next to the fireplace and in front of the home theater, relax with a glass and watch a movie. Apparently, a film about protecting the environment.

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An unusual business - a tree made of leaves.

Peter and Sharon Warmington and their company BioFuels International are changing organic magazine listings.

Each of us has burned dead leaves at least once, but not everyone would think that they were burning the stove. Processing leaves in the oven is very difficult and, most importantly, it is not very effective. But if you go the other way, that is, make a fire from falling leaves, then in this case it is the process of heating a stove or fireplace with fallen leaves in the form of a fireplace with ordinary wood.

The question “How to make a shelling out of falling leaves?” Successful and resourceful business success from Birmingham.

The idea behind this unusual fuel He was born in Morrison when he replaced the autumn leaves at home.

The inventor discovered that the material was worth a second life when he turned the list over in his hands.

Last year the leaves came in a flash

After testing the leaves several times, the would-be entrepreneur also created fuel pellets that contain multiple binders other than the leaves. This tablet bought a liter of water and inspired Peter Morrison to do new experiments.

Ceychas in Birmingham is working to create such sustainable timber. There is no shortage of raw materials at the plant, because in this city and its surroundings alone, municipal services collect and export 16,000 tons of autumn leaves per year to the landfill.

Technology for the production of such ecological trees not only in drying and pressing of biomass. In the finished product, entrepreneurs add wax, which acts as a binder and additional fuel.

Ingredient ratio: 70% sheets and 30% wax, so Birmingham logs are 70% "carbon neutral".

The weight of this diary is 1.2 kg, length 28 cm.

Another advantage of such logs is the fact that they can be easily ignored, for which you do not need any fire extinguishing fluid or varnish.

The envelope used as a filler for biomass is a cardboard tube.

In 2008-2009, BioFuels was successfully celebrated at a wide range of environmental exhibitions. What's important is that some of the awards for entrepreneurs in Birmingham were not for "green consciousness" but for an original business idea. "

Independent tests have shown that the wood energy content is 27.84 megacurrency per kilogram, which is comparable to the calorific value of high quality coal and higher than that of wood.

In this case, it's time to write one log is 2-3 hours, which is three times longer than a wooden block of the same weight.

And most importantly, the harmful “exhausts” from such a diary are small.

Leaf Logs are not just for barbecues because they have a large flame when baking. They can be used in all places where an open fire is required.

The British note that the list of lynxes burns almost easily does not mean the very beginning and the very end of the spirit.
(photo from www.leaflog.com)

Leaf processing problems

Scientific processing of leaves abroad is much more effective than in our country. While in our country it is composted or, as happens more often, taken out for burning, European countries earn money.

In particular, lawns are fertilized, and briquettes and logs are made from leaves or ordinary garbage to produce gas.

Should fallen leaves be left for the winter?

It is our custom to remove and remove what Americans have been feeding the soil with for a long time.

In Washington, the capital of America, leaves remain in the places where they fell. In order to rot better and faster, they are only crushed.

Plant waste left on lawns is believed to enrich the soil with nutrients.

Maybe that's why, rather than kicking up dust and sweeping them away, it's better to spend the money on a leaf shredder. Regarding what to do with the leaves, whether to leave them on the ground or not, expert opinions differ.

Some experts are sure that infectious viruses and pests remain in the leaves for the winter, therefore, their removal is beneficial to the trees.

Others remind that while allowing grass to germinate under the snow in the spring, fallen leaves are a protective layer of soil from freezing.

Leaf recycling as a business

Leaf recycling has long been used by many countries to make money.

The problem of fallen leaves in Birmingham is being tackled differently.

In these places, this is the basis of a business whose slogan is the fight for the environment, and a source of income.

They turn tree leaves into ordinary firewood - logs.

Ecopoleno made from leaves

There is now a log manufacturing plant in Birmingham.

The technology for producing these eco-wood is not only about compacting and burning biomass. To prepare one log, approximately one bag filled with large leaves is consumed.

The British add wax to the final product - thirty percent wax and seventy percent leaves.

We use a rake

It turns out, in addition, people abroad still haven’t forgotten about rakes.

And they not only remember, but also apply.

In Western countries, there are three types of rakes:

made of bamboo
made of metal
made of plastic

There they are used depending on how many leaves have fallen on the surrounding area.

You can also add to the list:

shredding machines
vacuum cleaners
blowers

And everything works for the benefit of the environment.

Each of us has burned fallen leaves at least once. But not everyone would think of lighting a stove with leaves. Stuffing an ordinary armful of leaves into a fireplace is extremely troublesome and, most importantly, completely ineffective. However, there is another way - special logs. In this case, we need to talk about a genuine engineering development that has brought considerable dividends to its authors.

There are two opposing points of view regarding the need to collect leaves in parks and gardens.

Some experts complain that pests and pathogens overwinter in fallen leaves (this, however, applies more to fruit and berry plants), and therefore, they say, removing leaves benefits the trees. Others remind that fallen leaves are a valuable fertilizer (feeding not only trees), and besides, they protect the soil from freezing, allowing spring grasses to begin their development while still under the snow.

And therefore, collecting leaves causes damage to green spaces.

Peter Morrison and Sharon Warmington and their company BioFuels International turn fallen leaves into logs - Leaf Log.

One Leaf Log log weighs 1.2 kilograms and is 28 centimeters long (photo by BioFuels International).

In Britain alone, the weight of leaves falling in one autumn is about a million tons (50 thousand leaves per large tree).

It is, of course, unrealistic to collect them all, but even a small fraction from this free source is a good help in reducing the burning of fossil hydrocarbons.

After all, any kind of mass procurement of firewood (which exists even now even in fully developed countries) means deforestation with all that it entails.

But why not give up a cozy (and so traditional) home? For many people living in detached homes, the alternative of natural gas fireplaces is not an option at all.

And those mean burning fossil fuels - also not the best solution.

Morrison and Warmington against the backdrop of their miracle logs (photo from leaflog.com).

Meanwhile, British innovators note, leaves left to humus, as well as those collected and thrown into a landfill, during the decomposition process release methane into the atmosphere, and it is more than twenty times a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

It is the latter that is released during the burning of leaves in the fireplace, while the carbon taken by the tree from the air during the previous summer enters the atmosphere.

As you can see, the use of fallen leaves as fuel has a double positive effect on the environment.

The tablet boiled a liter of water, which inspired Peter to try new things.

Leaf Logs are not suitable only for barbecues: the flame is too high, the company explains.

And so they can be used in any place where an open fire is needed. The British also note that Leaf Log burns almost smokelessly, not counting the very beginning and the very end of combustion (photos by BioFuels International).

What can we say about spreading the idea throughout the country.

Technology that turns fallen leaves into “magic” logs

However, dried and properly compressed fallen leaves are a high-calorie fuel.

The ingredient ratio is 70% leaves and 30% wax, so Birmingham logs are 70% carbon neutral.

Another advantage of leaf logs is that they are easy to ignite, which does not require any kindling liquid or a splinter (photo by BioFuels International).

Independent testing has shown that Leaf Log firewood produces 27.84 megajoules of energy per kilogram, which is comparable in combustion value to high-quality coal and more than wood.

In this case, one log burns continuously for 2-3 hours, which is three times longer than a wooden block of the same weight. And the harmful “exhaust” from such a log is small.

But at the same time, the latter contain up to 70% wax. However, wood processing waste also came to the attention of BioFuels. Following the leaf logs, the company has developed sawdust-based firewood - according to Rustic Log's own recipe.

One log of Rustic Log costs £2.75 ($4.4) and burns for two hours (photo BioFuels International).

The efforts of the inventor and his associate did not go unnoticed, which allowed them to develop their business.

So, back in February 2008, Morrison and Warmington won a prize of 40 thousand pounds from Shell UK for a promising “green” idea. Three months later, the newborn company received new funding from sponsors to expand Leaf Log technology beyond Britain.

In 2008-2009, BioFuels was a success in a whole series of environmental exhibitions.

And several more different awards were collected by such seemingly simple “wood from leaves.” Tellingly, some of the prizes went to Birmingham inventors not for “conscious ecology”, but for a “cool business idea.”

Along the way, the company expanded the list of parks and forestry enterprises with the owners of which an agreement was reached on the collection of leaves.

This only benefits the owners: the leaves from the plant were usually collected and exported, for which a lot of money was spent.

In terms of ingenuity, the sellers of fallen leaves can be compared with the sellers of snow and the inventors of the worm business (photos by jujuba/pixdaus.com, smarter.com, ecotime.blogspot.com, leaflog.com, Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Post).

It turned out that trading last year's leaves is a very promising activity.

Apparently, a film about protecting the environment.

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You live in a forested country, surrounded by forests and groves, but there is nothing to heat the stove with. All the dead wood was cut down and taken away to you, but cutting down living trees is somehow wrong. Where can I get some poleshki? Do it yourself! Look under your feet, collect leaves, compress them well, add some impregnation and... voila - environmentally friendly and economical!

That's exactly what a couple from Birmingham, Peter Morrison and Sharon Warmington, and their company BioFuels International, do, they turn foliage dropped by the crowns into logs - Leaf Log.The idea for this unusual fuel came to Morrison more than two years ago, when he was sweeping up an army of autumn leaves in his home. Turning the fallen leaf over in his hands, the inventor decided that this material was being wasted. The engineer experimented with the foliage, as a result of which he created a fuel tablet containing, in addition to the foliage, a number of additives. The tablet boiled a liter of water, which inspired Peter to try new things.But our heroes from Birmingham look at fallen leaves from a completely different angle: for them it is a source of income, the basis of a business that goes under the banner of the fight for the environment and against the notorious global warming.

Meanwhile, in addition to the fact that such logs allow you to enjoy the fire blazing in the fireplace, they also “clean” the atmosphere. After all, leaves left to humus, during the process of decomposition, release methane into the atmosphere, and it is more than twenty times a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. When leaves are burned in a fireplace, carbon taken from the air by the tree during the previous summer is released into the atmosphere.

Independent tests have shown that Leaf Log firewood produces 27.84 megajoules of energy per kilogram, which is comparable in combustion value to high-quality coal and more than wood. In this case, one log burns continuously for 2-3 hours, which is three times longer than a wooden block of the same weight. And the harmful “exhaust” from such a log is small.

In particular, lawns are fertilized, and briquettes and logs are made from leaves or ordinary garbage to produce gas.

Should fallen leaves be left for the winter?

It is our custom to remove and remove what Americans have been feeding the soil with for a long time. In Washington, the capital of America, leaves remain in the places where they fell. In order to rot better and faster, they are only crushed.

Plant waste left on lawns is believed to enrich the soil with nutrients.

Some experts are sure that infectious viruses and pests remain in the leaves for the winter, therefore, their removal is beneficial to the trees.

Others remind that, while allowing grass to germinate under the snow in the spring, fallen leaves are a protective layer of soil from freezing.

Leaf recycling as a business

Leaf recycling has long been used by many countries to make money. The problem of fallen leaves in Birmingham is being tackled differently.

In these places, this is the basis of a business whose slogan is the fight for the environment, and a source of income.

They turn tree leaves into ordinary firewood - logs. There is now a log manufacturing plant in Birmingham.

The technology for producing these eco-wood is not only about compacting and burning biomass. To prepare one log, approximately one bag filled with large leaves is consumed.

The British add wax to the final product - thirty percent wax and seventy percent leaves.

We use a rake

It turns out, in addition, people abroad still haven’t forgotten about rakes. And they not only remember, but also apply.

In Western countries, there are three types of rakes:

made of bamboo
made of metal
made of plastic

There they are used depending on how many leaves have fallen on the surrounding area.

You can also add to the list:

shredding machines
vacuum cleaners
blowers

And everything works for the benefit of the environment.

I live in Moscow in a quiet (by Moscow standards), cozy, area surrounded by green trees. Naturally, in the fall, fallen leaves cause a lot of inconvenience to public utilities. Every day during this period, in a nearby park, you can see how utility workers collect fallen leaves, pack them in huge plastic bags and take them, apparently, to a landfill. Where else could it be? Do not burn them, aggravating the already unfavorable environmental situation in the metropolis.

- Wait, what if you burn it? Burn not just for the purpose of disposal, but usefully and with great commercial gain?

So, or something like this, reasoned Peter Morrison and Sharon Warmington, who were perhaps the first in the world to develop the technology for making special logs for burning stoves or fireplaces. They came up with the idea, filed a patent and earned a lot of money from it. Millions dollars. Not counting the money that these cunning people, in the good sense of the word, will earn in the future. The demand for the products that BioFuels International produces is growing every day. The technology that turns fallen leaves into “magic”. The name of the log is Leaf Log.

The idea and technology were born in Great Britain, where, according to the most conservative estimates, the weight of fallen leaves is about a million tons. Can you imagine?! Now imagine the size of the territory of Great Britain and compare it with the territory of Russia. Billions, no, I’m afraid to count... many, very many!! It is, of course, unrealistic to collect them all, but even a small fraction from this free source is a good help in reducing the burning of fossil hydrocarbons. Of course, I understand that there are a lot of skeptics who claim that our forests are like dirt. There are a lot of forests, I agree. And where? That's right - in the forest. After all, it must be cut down, sawn, packaged, brought, etc. and so on. What do we get? The overhead costs are so high that you don’t even want the money. And here they (leaves-money) rustle underfoot. Literally and figuratively.

The idea for this unusual fuel came to Morrison more than two years ago, when he was sweeping up an army of autumn leaves in his home. Turning the fallen leaf over in his hands, the inventor decided that this material was being wasted. The engineer experimented with the foliage, as a result of which he created a fuel tablet containing, in addition to the foliage, a number of additives. The tablet boiled a liter of water, which inspired Peter to try new things. There is now an entire factory in Birmingham producing Leaf Log. And he has yet to cover the vast expanses of Birmingham alone with recycling - in this city and its environs, municipal services annually collect and transport 16 thousand tons of autumn leaves to landfill. What can we say about spreading the idea throughout the country.

A pack of ten Leaf Logs costs £35 ($56), including national delivery, which BioFuels International says is comparable to competing eco-friendly products, “synthetic firewood” for fireplaces and stoves made from sawdust. But at the same time, the latter contain up to 70% wax. However, wood processing waste also came to the attention of BioFuels. Following the leaf logs, the company has developed sawdust-based firewood - according to Rustic Log's own recipe.

Well, as a result, in the fall of this year, several companies from different countries approached the creators of BioFuels International, expressing interest in their own production of Leaf Log under a license from a British company. It turned out that trading last year’s leaves is a very promising activity.

Isn't this an example of the fact that business ideas are literally scattered under our feet?