Why Should I Recycle My Oil

Some basic facts – about 100 million gallons of waste cooking oil are disposed of in the US per year. Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) that is filtered can be used straight in diesel vehicles that have been converted to cool the oil, or bio-diesel can be used with no conversion to the vehicle at all. Bio-diesel refining involves some toxic substances – methanol for example – and reduces the cost differential between conventional and recycled fuel. However it still makes use of a waste product as an alternative to new petroleum consumption. MANY areas of the country have oil collection services that will gather restaurant or food service WVO on a regular basis and refine it into bio-diesel. Many companys make arrangements with restaurants/food service to gather and re-use WVO (with or without further refinement) in their converted cars. I would seen that many greenhouse gases are created every year from the burning of diesel fuel in trucks. Of course we are trying to find new imaginative ways to save our environment and one way to do this is to use vegetable oil as a renewable resource of fuel for transportation and also the use of heating. There are so many benefits of using this well to replace fossil fuels and some of these include condensed air pollution, abridged greenhouse gas emissions, and conservation of limited fossil fuels. There are two different ways that you can use vegetable oil as a fuel in engines. The first way is that you can use straight vegetable oil either waste frying oil or fresh- pressed oil, however you will need an extra fuel tank and a system for heating and filtering the oil before it reaches the engine. The reason why you will need this is because pure vegetable oil is too thick to work in the engine unless the oil is heated up. Once wvo is converted to Bio-Diesel, diesel trucks can run on the fuel without modifications. Bio-diesel is a fuel resource that can be made from waste vegetable oil when a chemical reaction is induced between methanol and lye. You can create it from waste vegetable oil that can be collected from most restaurants, or you can use fresh pressed oil but that can be costly. This is something that is now being made to sell commercially in thousands of countries all around the world, however with the right equipment and enough time it can also be made right at home. Some of the toxic air pollutants that are abridged include soot, particulates, carbon monoxide, and sulphur oxides, however nitrous oxide emissions may increase slightly.