Heres a thought for sustainable tourism: US China cooperation to transform waste cooking oil -- the source of repeated food safety scandals -- into jet fuel. Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) set up a plant in Hangzhou to convert gutter oil, a Chinese term for used cooking oil. A series of scandals involving gutter oil being re-used for human consumption has featured in Chinese media.The two companies estimate waste oil in China could yield 1.8 billion litres (500 million gallons) of biofuel annually.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:17:04 +0000