Community-scale biodiesel a potential boon for restaurants

In the UK, used cooking oil used to be expensive to dispose of but many businesses are capitalizing on having their own supply of waste cooking oil and are producing their own biodiesel, thereby benefiting from the cost savings of being able to run their own vehicles or generators on biodiesel, as well as the reduction in carbon emissions they make by using this alternative energy supply.

Community-scale biofuel production enables any enterprise with a canteen (and therefore a supply of waste cooking oil) to start produce biodiesel. The first 2,500 liters are tax free (in the U.K.) as well as producing an offsetting of 7 tons of carbon (CO2), and with a cost of 30p a liter, that makes for a very significant saving on energy bills.