Thursday, July 26, 2012

No tropical timber on German grills

 - NABU recommends environmentally friendly briquettes from olive stones
Berlin (ots) - Summertime is grilling time and with the warmest months of land each year about 300,000 tons of charcoal grills on Germany. What many consumers do not know: Almost two thirds of which come from South American tropical forests, from Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. This still can be grilled in good conscience, recommend the NABU to rely on climate-friendly coal types, such as from olive pits.

"To get olive pit briquettes offer an environmentally sound and sustainable tropical timber, but also powerful alternative to conventional charcoal. Charge you either domestic or tropical forests and thus help the 'green lung' of the world," said Leif Miller, Director NABU. To support the sale of green olive pit briquettes, NABU has been working this year with the manufacturer OlioBric. This is a patented process in the region of Kalamata olives richest / Peloponnese ago ecologically sound timber briquettes.


Olive pit briquettes are made from the waste of the second pressing of olive oil from seeds, skins and pulp residue, called pomace. In Greece, the heating power of these residues has long been known, where they are processed into fuel for stoves. In Germany the process is now offering a future-oriented and environmentally friendly heating and grill alternative, because the briquettes are produced sustainably and müllvermeidend.

"The preservation of tropical forests is essential for global climate protection and biodiversity conservation. That we burn during grilling with charcoal tropical wood, not even suspect many consumers because manufacturers do not mark where the timber comes," said Miller. The NABU therefore calls for binding targets manufacturers to prove the origin of the timber.

The briquettes are OlioBric of the European EMAS Award certified tropical timber for sustainable management and the three-pound bag of www.oliobric.com available. Their production is also under the "help Greece" sponsored by the Federal Economics Ministry and the EU. With each bag sold olive pit briquettes nature and environmental protection projects are supported by NABU.

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