{"id":18592,"date":"2015-04-21T12:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18592"},"modified":"2015-04-21T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:37:02","slug":"how-to-make-biodiesel-and-a-few-other-things-from-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/how-to-make-biodiesel-and-a-few-other-things-from-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Biodiesel (And A Few Other Things) From Food Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:\u00a0our best options for fighting food waste all involve feeding hungry people. There’s no reason that anyone should suffer from food insecurity when 40% of our food goes to waste<\/a>. But once food passes the point of edibility, we need to explore other options besides sending it to landfills (where it becomes methane, a very potent greenhouse gas).<\/p>\n Two years ago, we published an infographi<\/a>c exploring ideas for turning food waste into various fuels, including a couple of real-life examples. Last week, the University of Cincinnati issued a press release<\/a> showing the work a few researchers there are doing on this front. According to the release, environmental engineers\u00a0Timothy C. Keener and Drew C. McAvoy, along with faculty colleagues\u00a0Pablo Campo-Moreno, San-Mou Jeng, and George Sorial, have not only argued for, but also demonstrated a novel\u00a0approach to handling food waste – they’ve figured out how to make biodiesel out of it:<\/p>\n