There are more than 12 million gallons of waste vegetable oil (WVO) thrown out each year in the Houston area alone. This waste product could make more than 10 million gallons of clean, domestic biodiesel fuel.

The United States produces more than 3 billion gallons of waste vegetable oil (WVO) annually, mainly from industrial deep fryers in potato processing plants, snack food factories and fast food restaurants. If all those 3 billion gallons could be collected and used to replace the energy equivalent amount of petroleum (an ideal case), almost 1% of US oil consumption could be offset.

This is the first of many steps to cleaning up our air and becoming free of foreign oil.

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