Every year in Japan, an estimated 200,000 metric tons of waste oil is generated during the production of cooking oil, a process in which vegetable oil is refined to produce an edible product.
While most of this waste oil ends up being incinerated, a startup under Tohoku University in Sendai is using its proprietary technology to extract useful compounds out of it to produce biofuel and other products.
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