Mayor of London wants city’s waste cooking oil to run its bus fleet

In the UK, the Mayor of London wants to see 20% of the 250 million liters per year of fuel used to run the city’s buses to be biodiesel, and preferably from locally collected and processed used cooking oil. The city produces roughly 44 million liters of cooking oil per year. In order to help achieve this goal, he has proposed a 28 million liter per year biodiesel plant to help augment the existing small-scale production currently under way in the city. His plan he says will create hundreds of jobs while reducing carbon emissions by 50,000 tons per year.