Green Options

Milbrae, a small city south of San Francisco, celebrated its millionth gallon of restaurant grease-to-biogas energy conversion today.

The program wasn’t a shoe-in for success when plant superintendent Joe Magner and former superintendent Dick York started it in 2007. While San Francisco has plans to build grease-to-biodiesel plant and San Antonio has turned to poop-power, the two Milbrae men had a different (albeit smaller-scale) idea that had not been fully tested.