KFCs in UK begin biodiesel program

January 15, 2009

Yum! Brands in Louisville, Ky., which owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver's, announced that its KFC restaurant operations in the U.K. have begun converting approximately 7.7 million liters (2 million gallons) of waste vegetable oil per year into biodiesel. The first KFC restaurant to convert waste vegetable oil to biodiesel was the Soichiro "Sol" Yoshida KFC restaurant in Nagano City, Japan, in 1997, with help from Pacific Biodiesel Inc. in Kahului, Hawaii.

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