Recycle cooking oil for electricity (From Bucks Free Press)
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Recycle cooking oil for electricity
11:08am Sunday 1st March 2009 in
ENERGY conscious residents will be able to recycle cooking oil for use in electricity generation.
Used oil can be brought to one of the Bucks County Council recycling centres where it can be poured into collection tanks.
It will then be processed into a usable form by a company called Living Fuels.
Bucks county councillor Martin Tett, whose portfolio covers waste management, said: "It's so easy to be careless and pour old cooking oil down the drain or sink but this is both wasteful and damaging to the environment.
“Each of the collection tanks at our nine Buckinghamshire sites has a capacity of 1,000 litres and 9,000 litres of used cooking oil could generate enough electricity to power seven average UK homes for a year.
“I would really encourage householders to use this service, as it will help to protect the environment and generate renewable power."
Rob Murphy of Living Fuels said: "Every time another collection service is launched, it's an opportunity to get over the message that used cooking oil causes major environmental damage when poured down the sink.
“It costs water companies literally millions to clear blockages caused in sewers by this build-up of oils."
He said that the company's collection vehicles had been converted to run on the processed cooking oil.
There are recycling centres in the following locations:
London Road East, Amersham
London Road, Lower Pyebushes, Beaconsfield
Wigans Lane, Bledlow Ridge
High Heavens, Clay Lane, Booker
Comments(10)
smiley cat
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11:53am Sun 1 Mar 09
As for cooking oil - well I hardly us any so mine would not count for anything.
Slacker
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12:37pm Sun 1 Mar 09
It matters not to me as I do not drive, so I am not asking the question on behalf of myself. I am just saying that if people were rewarded for their time and devotion to helping recycle then perhaps they might think more about doing so.
I want people to recycle and we should all be doing our bit to help the earth, however there is a strong element who cannot be bothered and want something out of it. So I pose the question, if the councils and companies get financial benefits out of recycling then surely it could benefit the consumer if they were rewarded aswell. The more people who recycle the better and if that means a small reward then that is how it should be.
SDJones
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12:42pm Sun 1 Mar 09
Plus ça change...
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12:44pm Sun 1 Mar 09
We should probably have more collection places near our homes or next to existing bottle banks for it to work.
smiley cat
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12:49pm Sun 1 Mar 09
Slacker wrote:I am relieved to hear that Slacker cos you do not seem the type of person who would think that . Sadly you make a good point though. Personally I make a point of recycling as part of another journey - so when I go shopping on a sunday I get rid of my glass bottles.
If people are using their petrol and their time to do all this recycling then some are going to ask what is in it for them. It matters not to me as I do not drive, so I am not asking the question on behalf of myself. I am just saying that if people were rewarded for their time and devotion to helping recycle then perhaps they might think more about doing so. I want people to recycle and we should all be doing our bit to help the earth, however there is a strong element who cannot be bothered and want something out of it. So I pose the question, if the councils and companies get financial benefits out of recycling then surely it could benefit the consumer if they were rewarded aswell. The more people who recycle the better and if that means a small reward then that is how it should be.
To me it is a no brainer - however we are already aware of certain people who shall remain nameless whinging on and on about why should they do it!
Slacker
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1:57pm Sun 1 Mar 09
There is a bottle and can collection up at the community centre but I don't drink so there is nothing of use I can give them.
I want to be part of the recycling and all I can do at the moment is to give my old clothes to the charity shop. It is better than nothing but not enough really.
Slacker
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1:59pm Sun 1 Mar 09
Whatever happened to those schemes?
Bogart
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8:37am Mon 2 Mar 09
Slacker wrote:I think they fizzled out !
Just thinking about rewards, years ago didn't they give you 10p back if you took your lemonade bottles back to the retailers? :-)
Whatever happened to those schemes?
The DJ
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5:14pm Mon 2 Mar 09
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Slacker says...
11:18am Sun 1 Mar 09
Also what benefit do we get? The council will get all this free then probably sell it to the electricity companies who will then charge the customer for the electricity.
Its like all this cardboard and bottle collecting, the public put in all the effort and the other companies reap the benefits.
Perhaps if they offered us incentives like a council tax discount, then maybe more people would be bothered.