(Notícia em Inglês)
Officials in South Carolina’s capital city are turning one man’s trash into a treasure of sorts — fuel that they’ll use to transport more trash.
Officials are encouraging Columbia residents to drop off their used cooking oil at the city’s public works department.
Midlands Biofuels, of Winnsboro, will collect the oil each week and convert it into fuel to power one of Columbia’s garbage trucks.
The program has two purposes:
Officials in South Carolina’s capital city are turning one man’s trash into a treasure of sorts — fuel that they’ll use to transport more trash.
Officials are encouraging Columbia residents to drop off their used cooking oil at the city’s public works department.
Midlands Biofuels, of Winnsboro, will collect the oil each week and convert it into fuel to power one of Columbia’s garbage trucks.
The program has two purposes:
- To cut down on the amount of grease dumped into the city’s sewer system. The grease caused 460 sewer spills last year, which dumped 2.1 million gallons of raw sewage into the community.
- To reduce the vehicle emissions of harmful pollutants that contribute to bad ozone, the kind that is formed at ground level by a mixture of chemicals in warm weather.
The program represents a baby step in both directions. It is only open to Columbia city residents, who make up less than half of the city’s sewer customers. And the biodiesel will run only one of the city’s 60 garbage trucks.
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- To reduce the vehicle emissions of harmful pollutants that contribute to bad ozone, the kind that is formed at ground level by a mixture of chemicals in warm weather.
The program represents a baby step in both directions. It is only open to Columbia city residents, who make up less than half of the city’s sewer customers. And the biodiesel will run only one of the city’s 60 garbage trucks.
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