WASTE cooking oil collected from school kitchens at Warrington over the last 18 months has saved enough carbon to offset the emissions created when boiling 110,000 kettles.
It is recycled to produce bio-fuel in generating systems that provide low carbon heat and power to buildings providing services to the public.
Warrington’s schools catering service joined the scheme in January last year.
Up to June this year, 5,163 litres of oil were collected in the borough on behalf of Cheshire-based Green2Go by its oil partner Convert2Green.
No charge was made for the service.
The resulting bio-fuel is then used by Cheshire-based Green2Go, to fuel generating systems that provide low carbon heat and power to buildings providing services to the public.
Using bio-fuel instead of energy from the national grid reduces carbon emissions by 90 per cent.
Cllr Colin Froggatt, the borough council’s executive member for children and young people’s services said: “We are very conscious of our environmental impact delivering our services has on the environments and we are continually seeking ways to reduce this. Disposing of cooking oils can also be a difficult job whereas this approach is both convenient and economical.”
Richard O’Keefe, director of Green2Go, said: “Schools produce thousands of litres of waste cooking oil per annum which might otherwise go to landfill or be exported, and may even cause environmental problems. By recycling with Green2Go, the used cooking oil is refined into unique bio-fuel and used to generate renewable and sustainable energy, thereby saving carbon emissions.”
WASTE cooking oil collected from school kitchens at Warrington over the
last 18 months has saved enough carbon to offset the emissions created
when boiling 110,000 kettles.
School cooking oil re-cycled
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