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How much biodiesel could a country make, if a country could collect all restaurant grease?

We know all about biodiesel homebrewers running to the local Chinese restaurant or fast food joint and collecting buckets of used fryer oil. Thousands of people run their cars on this waste product and in some areas – Kalamazoo, Michigan, for example – there is a unified collection system to run city buses on biodiesel. So, why not a national, coordinated waste grease collection system? That's the idea of Oren Rubin, business development general manager for the California biodiesel company BiOil (which hasn't produced gallon one, ... Read more →

Leftover chicken fat may become biodiesel instead of soap Mike Magda

Some 2.3 billion pounds of chicken fat are left over every year from just the Tyson Foods operations. That could make 300 million gallons of biodiesel. Question is, who's going to handle the ...

How much biodiesel could a country make, if a country could collect all restaurant grease? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Leftover chicken fat may become biodiesel instead of soap 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Some 2.3 billion pounds of chicken fat are left over every year from just the Tyson Foods operations. That could make 300 million gallons of biodiesel. Question is, who's going to handle the production? A couple of Missouri men want to use $5 million to build a plant to refine chicken fat near ...

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