Last week I was given some local potatoes and I made chips. Being such a healthy eating fanatic I feel like this is a real confession! Anyway after cooking and eating was complete I was left with an uncommon dilemma – what to do with the excess oil? Aware of its clogging and polluting effects I knew that I should not throw it down the sink or into the garden but how on earth was I going to get rid of it?
A few Google searches later I found
some answers. Excess cooking oil should only be disposed of by pouring it into a sealed container and throwing that away. Of course that garbage ends up in a landfill which isn’t very ecological either, but it’s better than it getting into the water supply where just one litre of oil can contaminate 1 million litres of water.
But there is another solution – making it into fuel. There is a lot of hype about biofuel these days and the race is on to make the most efficient alternative to traditional fossil fuel oil. These types of fuels made from vegetable sources may be heralded as the solution to the problem of diminishing oil reserves but they have also shown to have
negative environmental and social effects. In order to grow enough plant fodder to make the fuels,
forests are being destroyed and
food prices everywhere are rising as crops sell for much more as fuel than food. Ultimately there has to be a compendium of solutions to our current energy crisis and surely one of these components is to recycle used vegetable oil and make it into fuel.
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