Skagit County is home to the first U.S. facility of a Canada-based company that turns used cooking oil and beef fat into a product that is used to make low-carbon
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From street level, West Coast Reduction cuts an imposing presence on Vancouver’s waterfront. Across the railway tracks at the north end of Commercial Drive, ranks of towering storage tanks surround the massive blocks of its industrial plant.
Looking down on an aerial view from Google Maps, however, the tanks and buildings look a little hemmed in by container yards of the terminals that surround it, which is exactly how owners of the decades-old agricultural rendering plant feel these days.
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Turning protein waste into next-generation biofuel Content from Globe Content Studio Published January 18, 2021
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West Coast Reduction has become a key biofuel feedstock supplier to some of the world’s largest energy producers
The same process used to make soup stock is helping West Coast Reduction Ltd. cut the carbon footprint of fossil fuels.
The Vancouver-based company primarily focuses on rendering: taking leftover meat and fish products from farms, slaughterhouses, grocery stores and restaurants that would otherwise become waste or compost, and recycling certain components for use in animal feed and, more recently, alternative fuel.
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