The hazards of reusing cooking oil
The reuse of dirty cooking oil causes health risks. The more you use this oil again, the more cancer causing particles accumulate in the oil. Restaurants often sell their used cooking oil at the back door to poor people. These poor families continue to use this oil until it is too thick and sticky to cook with. Then they pour it down the drain. The results: clogging and leaking of the sewer system, and the spread of dangerous particles to our environment. Sometimes the used oil is sold to be processed into cattle food - another way cancer causing particles end up in the food we eat.
There is a solution for this problem: the used oil can be processed into high-quality biodiesel fuel. This can be done in a safe, clean and environmentally friendly way compliant with European standards. Ninety percent of the oil is converted into fuel, the remaining ten percent produces glycerin and water. A cradle to cradle concept, that diverts all health and environmental hazards. Because the oil is not processed until it has become a health hazard, this form of bio fuel does not disrupt the food chain.