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Smithfield to Convert Hog Waste Into Fuel
By REUTERS
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CHICAGO, Feb. 21 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods Inc., the
pork producer, said
today that it would build a $20 million site in Utah that
would use waste
from 500,000 hogs to make biodiesel, a renewable fuel for
vehicles.
Biodiesel can be made from any fat including vegetable
oil and used cooking
oil. About 15 million gallons were used in the United States
last year.
Smithfield said it would be the major partner in
BEST BioFuel, a partnership
that will build the plant at Smithfield-owned swine production
sites near
Milford, Utah.
"
Livestock waste can be a source of clean, renewable vehicle
fuel," said
Robert F. Urell, a Smithfield senior vice president.
Construction
is scheduled to start in April on the new site, pending
final
approval of a conditional use permit and a permit from
the Utah Department
of Environmental Quality.
Smithfield's Utah swine operation
produces about one million market hogs a
year, and the biodiesel project will use the waste from
about half of those
hogs, the company said.
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