WEDU Quest
111: Food Waste Racers
Clip: Season 1 Episode 11 | 3m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
Learn how food waste is turned in to a fuel for high performance engines used in racing.
Summit Foods had the problem of dealing with waste created from making dried fruits. They turned the waste in to a fuel and car racers in Oregon use this special ethanol to fuel high performance engines. It turns out this fuel from waste works better than petroleum fuels and solves the problem of dumping food waste into landfills.
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WEDU Quest
111: Food Waste Racers
Clip: Season 1 Episode 11 | 3m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
Summit Foods had the problem of dealing with waste created from making dried fruits. They turned the waste in to a fuel and car racers in Oregon use this special ethanol to fuel high performance engines. It turns out this fuel from waste works better than petroleum fuels and solves the problem of dumping food waste into landfills.
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