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Evening Standard
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Simon Hunt

Virgin Atlantic vies with British Airways to be greenest transatlantic carrier with low carbon fuel deal

A Virgin Atlantic plane

(Picture: Virgin Atlantic)

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic is to follow rival airline British Airways in adopting new lower-carbon jet fuel, as parent Virgin Group partners with chemical company Agilyx to develop the technology.

Virgin and Agilyx are establishing a joint venture to build waste-to-fuel production facilities that will create a synthetic crude oil made from discarded plastic that would have otherwise be sent to landfill.

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