Wednesday, 27 August 2008

What’s the use of recycling waste cooking oil?

Apart from the fact, that your CO2 emissions are close to nil while driving your diesel powered car, enormous savings are associated:

  • Someone driving 50.000 k a year could reduce their annual fuel bill by some 80% from €3500 to €750 a year
  • A car rental company, hiring their diesel cars with fuel included in the rental price, could net another €17.500, if they run ten cars doing some 300.000k p.a. Apart from giving a sound ecological image of their company to the potential client, they would bill their customers the service station rate of biodiesel, some €22.000 but the cost to produce the fuel is only €4500.
  • A hotel will produce some 5200 litres of waste cooking oil p.a,, which recycled on site into biodiesel will save them €5000 p.a. and provide them with an additional 2000 lb of soap, a by-product when making biodiesel which cuts costs in the laundry.
  • Boat owners know how fast their engines burn up fuel and a day trip can cost €1000 at the gas `pumps in the port. Producing your own biodiesel would reduce this to €200.

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