Kettle Biodesel

I ran across the Kettle Foods web site today and was struck by one of the links on their site, labeled sustainability (a personal area of interest):

“On average, for every 7,600 bags of Kettle™ brand potato chips we produce, we create one gallon of waste vegetable oil. This waste vegetable oil is stored in a tank and, when enough accumulates, it is picked up and taken to a biodiesel production facility. That facility can make one gallon of 100% biodiesel for every gallon of waste oil we give them. 100% biodiesel can be used in any diesel engine, like in our fleet of bio-beetles!”

What’s interesting is that it goes to show how food is not just food: it’s related to everything around us, be it society, health, garbage…or even the oil industry.