Turkey Fryer Oil Gets New Green Life as Biodiesel

Many a turkey met a delectable fate yesterday as they were dipped in hot oil and fried up GBD – golden, brown and delicious. Well, you might want to add green to that equation, as the leftover fryer oil can be turned into biodiesel. Many cities and communities across the country are offering to take that used fryer oil off your hands and make it into the green fuel. In Chicago, that city’s newspaper, the Tribune, had this article about the recycling efforts there, which also keeps that unwanted grease out of the sewer system.

On Saturday, 19 suburbs in DuPage and Cook counties will collect used cooking oil to convert it to clean-burning biofuel. School & Community Assistance for Recycling & Composting Education, or SCARCE, a Glen Ellyn-based environmental education nonprofit, organized the collection with oil recyclers Green Grease Environmental and Chicago Biofuels…

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