May
10
2011
Food delivery firm turns grease to gas
The Columbia division of national food delivery giant U.S. Foodservice is pioneering a program to turn greasy used frying oil from kitchens it serves into biodiesel to help gas up its fleet of more than 150 trucks.
With regular diesel topping $4 a gallon and rising, the division has plenty of incentive to make the program successful, both in lowering its fuel costs and its carbon footprint.
The program, which could be a model for the rest of the company nationwide, already has received the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control’s 2011 Earth Day Award, division president Durwood Owens said from his office in Lexington.
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