Dive summary:
- Food waste experts at Tidy Planet are pairing up with the fast food chain KFC to use old cooking oil to help power the restaurants.
- More than 900 locations are installing the system, which will produce 15% of the electricity and all of the hot water for the stores.
- By not having to dump the old oil in another disposal site, KFC will also save more than 1,000 miles of waste transportation, which will reduce CO2 emissions by almost 1,800 metric tons a year.
From the article:
In April 2012, the two companies teamed up to install the first CHiP as a trial. In September, the second system was installed in the LEED- and BREEAM-certified Wincanton site as part of KFC's Green Building Programme.
Each store that adopts the CHiP will save more than 1,000 miles of waste transportation; that reduces transport related CO2 emissions by more than 4,000 tonnes a year.
As the CHiP is 50% more efficient than a power station, replacing fossil fuels with energy produced from its own used cooking oil will further reduce KFC's carbon footprint by 1,800 tonnes of CO2 per store each year, saving thousands of pounds in energy costs at the same time. ...
