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TUCSON - EDG Fuels has done their homework and now Tucson's first biodiesel manufacturing plant is ready for business, thanks to what local restaurants are supplying.

"We have raw cooking oil in some of the far tanks and we bring the raw oil in, pre-treat the oil, clean it, get the water out of it and we reload it back in the tank", said EDG Fuels Jeff Sires.

As far as getting from cooking oil to biodiesel, EDG Fuels has an ultra-sonic reactor. "What this does is shear the biodiesel and the methanol and it will blend it. It tears the molecules so two parts fit into one and you use less feedstock that way and less reactants that way", said Sires.

By the end of 2010, EDG Fuels hopes to produce 3-million gallons of biodiesel at their Tucson plant. That means their Green Dining Network's ready to expand. "Our goal is to get 100 percent of restaurants in Tucson into the network, which means they participate in having us come out, collect their used cooking oil, and use it for processing in our biodiesel plant", said EDG Fuels Stacy Sires.

To learn more about EDG Fuels, visit: http://www.edgroup.us/