– Grant will help city build first biodiesel plant to recycle restaurant grease.
– San Francisco began the free grease collection program last year.
– Project to use recycled restaurant grease to power the city's fleet of biodiesel trucks.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission provided the city with a $1 million grant to build its first biodiesel plant to recycle restaurant grease. San Francisco began the free grease collection program last year.
The city sent crews to collect used cooking oil from restaurants that it sells to biodiesel producers, according to San Francisco Business Times. With the grant, the city will now be able to make their own.
The new plant will be built alongside the Oceanside Sewage Treatment Plant. The plant will be the first of its kind to produce fuel from both yellow grease, the kind that comes out of a fryer, and brown grease, a lower quality feedstock for making biodiesel made up of pan scrapings and trappings under a restaurant sink.
The city wants to create a closed loop where all of the grease its restaurants produce is recycled and used to power the city's fleet of biodiesel trucks. This is another step towards making that process a reality.
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