The Big Lemon is a Community Interest Company which operates a bus and coach business and was founded by Tom Druitt in 2007. Between 2007 and 2017 the Big Lemon ran all it's buses on recycled waste cooking oil from local restaurants. The waste oil was collected from chip shops, restaurants and hotels in Brighton & Hove and across Sussex. It was then processed in a factory near Eastbourne to make biodiesel, a plant-based alternative to regular mineral diesel.
in 2017 the Big Lemon became the first bus and coach business to run a bus powered by solar power harnessed from solar panels on the roof of the bus depot. Learn more.