The Raleigh (N.C.) Telegram newspaper reports that the City of Raleigh’s green efforts include using sunflower seeds grown on city property to biodiesel fuel that will help power the Neuse River Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The city says a long-term goal will be to use biodiesel for at least half the 25,000 gallons of diesel fuel the plant burns each year. The city received a $100,000 grant from the Biofuels Center of North Carolina to support a pilot program started in 2010. In that year, the city planted 27 acres of sunflowers on its land and irrigated them with wastewater effluent. The
