The Community Biofuel Cycle

The Community Biofuel Program is a movement for local, sustainable fuel that centers on strengthening our community. The idea is to forge mutually beneficial relationships between members and restaurants, in which members support the restaurants that recycle their cooking oil to produce biodiesel. This understanding of loyalty to the community allows for both restaurants and members to get what they want: a stronger customer base for restaurants, and a local, sustainable, green fuel for members.

Co-op Power, in conjunction with Northeast Biodiesel, fills in the rest. With a healthy supply of locally recycled cooking oil, we can synthesize and distribute exactly as much biodiesel to the community as we receive.

Please join us in our mission to bring locally sourced biodiesel for you to use in your engines and furnaces; all it takes is visiting your favorite restaurants and telling them how much this cause means to you. Thank you for helping us build a sustainable future right here in New England!

What can you do?

• Check with your local restaurant and see if they want to have our affiliates pick up their used cooking oil (UCO, also called RVO for recycled vegetable oil). Have them email rvo@northeastbiodiesel.com for more information.

• If you are a restaurant or other food processor, we want to hear from you at rvo@northeastbiodiesel.com!

• We do not currently have a process for collecting UCO from home kitchens. Please check with your local transfer station.

• We do not sell our biodiesel directly to home heating oil consumers. We are working with Coop Power to bring biodiesel to home heating oil dealers and thus to your home. Go to https://www.cooppower.coop/heating-fuel-buying-groups-for-home for more information.

• We do not sell our biodiesel in small quantities for highway use. If you are a farmer or fleet manager, send an email to sales@northeastbiodiesel.com for more information on bulk sales.