While most of her fellow students spent the summer in career-advancing internships or in jobs that allowed for the most partying, Angela Hojnaki went to Sao Paolo, Brazil, to help collect cooking grease. That grease, when run through a special converter, will power the diesel engines of garbage trucks responsible for cleaning up the city’s worst slums. Hojnaki is part of a student collective called Green Grease at MIT, which is dedicated to finding environmentally sound ways to help Brazil’s impoverished garbage collectors, known as catadores .
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MIT Uses Green Grease To Help Brazilian Garbage Collectors
