Georgia city to use cooking oil as truck fuel

Used cooking oil will play a big role in the green plans of Smyrna, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Starting next month, the city will begin collecting biodiesel in the form of recycled cooking oil from up to 150 restaurants that fry food, the news organization reports. The city will then use it in a fuel mix for the city's fleet of trucks, the Journal-Constitution reports.

Smyrna is taking on the project through the use of federal stimulus funds from the Department of Energy. Biodiesel can be used with little or no modification to vehicles, according to the news organization.

"We modeled our program after one in Hoover, Ala., and they started it to get the oil out of the sewers," Ann Kirk, executive director of Keep Smyrna Beautiful, told the Journal-Constitution. "That's one of our main goals too."

Smyrna will use the $208,000 in federal grant money to expand an existing public works building to include two biodiesel processing plants with storage tanks and containers by the end of January, according to the newspaper. The plan will start off slowly with two to four water and sewer trucks.

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