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Welcome to UB
(Speaker: Josh Hancock) I’m from Rochester, New York.
I’m a senior here in Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo and I’m here to talk about my bio-diesel project.
So the basic idea was to turn excess grease into bio-diesel that can be used in vehicles on campus.
After we finished the research and determined that the waste grease was of very high quality,
and that we could make good bio-diesel out of it, all we needed to do was convince the facilities department and the university to go ahead and use it.
After we ran some numbers, it looked like we could save about $10,000 a year on waste grease collection costs and fuel savings.
So, right now we’re actually working on a deal with a company to do just that.
No matter how things end up, my research opened the door for UB to expand its environmental programs
in a new direction and to carefully look at sustainability on campus in a new way.
Produced by Matthew Jackson
Featuring Josh Hancock
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