How can I recycle waste vegetable oil?
Every week, millions of liters of vegetable oil is thrown out from fast food restaurants, fish and chip shops and chinese restaurants, not to mention snack food factories, such as potato chip manufacturers, and other deep fried foods. In fact, any food service industry that uses large amounts of cooking oil has to dispose of this waste vegetable oil on a regular basis.
Waste vegetable oils pose huge disposal problems in many parts of the world. In the past, the majority of these waste products were used in the manufacture of animal feed. However, since 31 October 2004, waste oil from catering can no longer be used in animal feed, due to its links with BSE. Since the use of waste vegetable oils for animal feed has reduced, this has resulted in the increased disposal problems we are now faced with.
One possible solution to this problem is the use of waste oils and fats to power vehicles and machinery. Sounds crazy, but the conversion of waste vegetable oil into biodiesel is a very common practice, and something more and more people are learning how to do.
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The conversion of waste vegetable oil into biodiesel has many advantages over using the petroleum-based diesel that you would find at any petrol or gas station. For one, thing, it’s cheap. About a third of the cost. It reduces many of the toxic emissions ordinary cars and machinery make, such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrocarbons and benzene. It lubricates your engine, thereby protecting it, unlike ordinary diesel. And it will even clean your fuel lines and injectors. So what are you waiting for?
As of the year 2000, the USA was responsible for an excess of 11 billion liters (2.9 billion gallons) of waste vegetable oil every year. The main culprits are: fast food restaurants, industrial potato fryers and snack food manufacturers. If we were able to collect all 11 billion liters and recycle the waste oil as biodiesel, almost 1% of US oil consumption could be offset! Wouldn’t that be amazing?
Most Governments support the recovery of waste vegetable oils for biodiesel, as it underpins most Government’s strategies to reduce dependency upon landfill sites, and reduces our dependency on fossil fuels for energy production. If waste vegetable oil isn’t recycled for biodiesel or used in the production of animal feed, it will go into landfill sites, which is a disaster for the environment, and unless consumers stop eating deep fried foods (unlikely) it’s a problem that won’t go away.
Do you want to recycle waste vegetable oil?
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