City Government Wants Your Cooking Oil
If your family is going green you probably already recycle newspapers, cans and bottles, but what about cooking oil? It doesn’t sound very environmentally-friendly, but the City of Columbia in South Carolina wants its residents to start trashing their grease.
The concept is simple — turn frying oil into fuel. Residents can drop-off used cooking oil at the City’s Public Works Department and biofuel company, Midlands Biofuels, will handle things from there.
“We convert that waste cooking oil into clean, renewable, sustainable bio diesel that can be burned in any diesel engine,” said Brandon Spence with Midlands Biofuels. Spence says the truck will run a lot cleaner and over time will save taxpayers a lot of green. “It reduces the vehicles emissions by almost 80 percent, so when you see large trucks with all of that black smoke, you don’t get that same thing with bio diesel.”
The City plans to use the biofuel in government vehicles to help the cost of fuel, as well as part of a new green initiative.
This just goes to show you the true ‘green’ spirit some governments across the country have out there!
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