Used Cooking Oil Can Attract Insects And Block Sewers

Today I received an email which is promoting a business recycling used cooking oil which I thought was probably mainly of interest to large users of oil such as factories and restaurants but I was open-mouthed in horror when I read that used oil can attract insects, block sewers, and cost the householder, the industry and the country billions.

The email tells me that

Living Fuels, a REG bio company, Is increasing awareness of perils associated with tipping used cooking oil down drains.

Instead, they are urging that food manufacturing companies organise a collection of oil, or drop it off at their nearest recycling facility. This way it can be recovered into 100 percent eco-friendly power for The National Grid.

So far, so good, very nice, but not my problem, nor yours if you are not a huge consortium, I thought. But I am interested in the environment, always want to know any implications for me as a householder, and I speak to groups, so I read on.

• Removing blockages from drainage systems costs £15 million a year.
• The drains on your land - between the boundary of your business or home, are cleared at your cost. The water company only pays for the blockage of the pipework under publicly owned property.

They say they will be sending more information in the New Year. I am wide eyed looking around my kitchen for that bottle of oil.

I got my information from Kinetic PR.

For further information:

-          Kinetic PR                               0121 212 6250

-          Nicola Pledger           /Charlotte Clare                                

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-          Nicola.Pledger@kineticpr.co.uk

-          Charlotte.Clare@kineticpr.co.uk

[i]               REG Living Fuels  http://www.livingfuels.co.uk/did_you_know.

[ii]               http://www.wastebook.org/fats.htm.