A $12 million factory near Montreal has started producing “biodiesel” fuel from the bones, innards and other parts of farm animals such as cattle, pigs or chickens. Animal waste is being used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.



Rothsay, a unit of Maple Leaf Foods Inc., is also making biodiesel at the plant by recycling oil from fast food restaurants. Biodiesel emits much lesser smog than gasoline or diesel fuel. It also does not emit any heat-trapping gases that are making temperatures rise.



The Rothsay plant can produce 35 million liters of biodiesel every year when in full flow. The greenhouse gas is equivalent to removing 16,000 light trucks or 22,000 cars from the roads.



Biodiesel is also being made from farm crops, like soy or canola. Germany’s Rudolf Diesel, the makers of the first diesel engines in the 1890s, has designed the engines to run on peanut oil as well. Biodiesel is produced by combining natural oils or fats with alcohols such as methanol or ethanol. The process leaves two products — biodiesel and glycerin.



The biodiesel seems to be yet another option for the car-owners with the ever-increasing rise in prices of oil throughout the world.









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