Biofuel?

For Americans, it's hard to wake up in the morning without making a contribution to global warming. Almost anything you can imagine doing has a carbon footprint, from eating a muffin to buying the paper; Sun Microsystems has embarked on a project to calculate the carbon footprint of a single e-mail. (Business Green) (Which makes this blogger wonder: what is the carbon footprint of my very soul?)

Now it turns out there's one more American pastime for the carbon-conscious to worry about: liposuction.

Anything relating to the disposal of liposuction fat makes me think of that one scene in Fight Club, so I don't really like to think about it at all. But according to the City Paper, a couple of local cosmetic surgeons crunched the numbers and discovered that the incineration of liposuct-ed fat produces the carbon equivalent of driving 2 million miles each year. Now they're buying carbon offsets for their business.

And in case you were wondering, yeah, in theory, you could turn it into transportation fuel.