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Last updated Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:13 PM CDT in News
By Dan Craft THE MORNING NEWS

Conversion Recycles Cafeteria Waste

FAYETTEVILLE — From big blue tractors tilling fields to the signature orange utility trucks buzzing around campus, the University of Arkansas uses a lot of diesel fuel.

Feeding thousands of college students also produces a lot of used cooking oil.

Turns out those chicken fingers at the cafeteria might be indirectly helping power the equipment that grows the vegetables and keeps the grass mowed.

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