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A Greener Way To Give Blood

By Michael Edward Miller

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A Greener Way to Give Blood

Chattanooga, TN – Blood Assurance is known for saving lives with its regional blood bank. Now it's doing more: Blood Assurance vehicles are helping to save the environment by running on bio-diesel.

A company called TrimChick partners with Blood Assurance, providing the fuel. TrimChick creates the fuel in a way that's very different from plain-old ethanol.

Will Wilson, from TrimChick, and Bonnie Phillips, from Blood Assurance, explain how it works in this interview.