Mean Green Biodiesel of Tennessee is planning a facility for Memphis, that will produce biodiesel from more than the usual soybean oil used by a large number of biodiesel plants. The plant would be:
"marginally different" in that it would be geared toward using more industrial-type waste products and could even get things like "hard greases" from the City of Memphis wastewater treatment system, which are currently being removed and shipped to landfills.
Byproducts will also be used:
There are numerous industries in the biomedical and biochemical fields that could use some of Mean Green's byproducts, chiefly glycerin, and use it as raw material for their products,
When some opponents of biodiesel focus on palm oil and rainforests, they forget other feed stock that could be used, sources that are currently waste products intended for landfills.