After the bake-sale: Raising $$, via waste cooking oil collection

July 14, 2011 |

In Spain, the NGO Madre Coraje in Jerez de la Frontera collects used cooking oil from 300 containers scattered across six provinces and sells half a million liters a year to local biodiesel companies, with the proceeds going to humanitarian aid to help supply Sagrada Familia, an orphanage in the marginalized district of Ventanilla on the outskirts of Lima, Peru.

The NGO also makes soaps that it sends to the children and other organizations all over the country, totaling more than 770 tons since 1992. The soap counts as roughly a quarter of the 20-ton-container donation shipments with the rest of the food, school supplies, new clothing, medicine and various types of equipment and parts valuing between $130,000 and $218,000 from sales of the biofuel feedstock.

Category: Fuels

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