Waste oil biodiesel project gets grant assist at University of South Carolina

In South Carolina, the University of South Carolina has received grants from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control and the Environmental Protection Agency totaling $89,090 to set up a 5,000 ton per year used cooking oil to biodiesel project. The plan is to sell the fuel at $3 a gallon, compared to $2 for production, in order to pay the students and volunteers who do the actual production. The school’s shuttle buses will likely be one of the first customers.