NEW YORK STATE FAIR -- This year's butter sculpture was one of the most popular attractions at the New York State Fair and you can rest assured it won't go to waste.

Students from SUNY ESF are taking 900 pounds of butter and turning it into bio-diesel. When the butter is brought back to campus, it will be heated up to about 95 degrees.

"So that's going to melt the butter just like you would melt butter if you were eating a good, nice lobster meal. You see that white stuff that settles down at the bottom, those are the solids, milk solids that we're going to have to separate out and then we're going to take off all of the fat off the top of that and use that in our processor to produce the bio-diesel," said Christopher Normura, a bio-chemistry professor at SUNY ESF.

The butter is expected to yield almost 100 gallons of bio-diesel.