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05/05/2011
Bring your used cooking oil to the MOL filling stations!
MOL has installed specific storage tanks in 100 MOL filling stations in Hungary enabling residents to get rid of used cooking oil in an environmentally-friendly manner. The collected cooking oil is used for producing bio-fuel.
MOL intends to help and facilitate residents to quickly, simply and in an environmentally-friendly manner „get rid of” the used cooking oil: specific storage tanks have been installed in 100 MOL stations in Hungary. The only thing you have to do is to hand over the vessel with the cooking oil and he will pour it into this tank. Biofilter Kft. will collect this oil from the filling stations and, following some treatment and purification, it will be delivered to Rossi Biofuel Plant at Komárom, where bio-fuel will be produced from this oil and blended into Diesel fuel as bio-component.
If you take the trouble and deliver such used cooking oil to a MOL filling station, you will receive a quite practical collecting vessel made of re-cycled plastic as a gift, and then you can use this vessel for comfortable and drip-free collection of cooking oil, and once it is full, you can carry the oil to the filling station.
Several ten thousands cooking oil is used annually in Hungary. This oil is at present collected in an organised manner only in and major restaurants or canteens, typically serving a large crowd, where this oil is regularly collected and transported.
Most unfortunately, only a minor fragment of cooking oil used in households is delivered to waste yards or depots, the majority is poured into water drainage or dustbins This is quite harmful and causes damages, as it accumulated along the walls of pipelines and may cause plugs in the drainage system, and, if mixed up with communal waste, it shows u pin waste yards or depots as a hardly degradable compound. And if cooking oil gets into living waters, either deliberately or by accident, the effects are even graver and more dangerous: it floats on the surface of rivers and lakes and thus prevents oxygen exchange and can destroy all forms of life in such waters. One drop of used cooking oil can cause pollution to 1 000 litres living water. MOL has now offered an environmentally-friendly solution to this problem, enabling residents to deliver the used cooking oil at its filling stations.
What happens with the collected used cooking oil? This oil is used for producing bio-duel in Komárom, at Rossi Biofuel Plant. Wastes generated during the treatment and purification process (crumbs, meal residues, etc.) as well as by-products of bio-diesel production can be very well used, as feedstock, for biogas production. As a result, the used cooking oil will become a re-cycled and environmentally-friendly product, instead of an environment-polluting waste.
This method and process is in full compliance with the requirements specified in the new EU Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC), where the provisions relevant for transport entered into effect as of January 1, 2011. The Directive attaches great importance to those feedstock and raw materials, which can reduce the quantity of various wastes, in this case, that of the used cooking oil, through encouraging its re-cycling.
MOL intends to help and facilitate residents to quickly, simply and in an environmentally-friendly manner „get rid of” the used cooking oil: specific storage tanks have been installed in 100 MOL stations in Hungary. The only thing you have to do is to hand over the vessel with the cooking oil and he will pour it into this tank. Biofilter Kft. will collect this oil from the filling stations and, following some treatment and purification, it will be delivered to Rossi Biofuel Plant at Komárom, where bio-fuel will be produced from this oil and blended into Diesel fuel as bio-component.
If you take the trouble and deliver such used cooking oil to a MOL filling station, you will receive a quite practical collecting vessel made of re-cycled plastic as a gift, and then you can use this vessel for comfortable and drip-free collection of cooking oil, and once it is full, you can carry the oil to the filling station.
Several ten thousands cooking oil is used annually in Hungary. This oil is at present collected in an organised manner only in and major restaurants or canteens, typically serving a large crowd, where this oil is regularly collected and transported.
Most unfortunately, only a minor fragment of cooking oil used in households is delivered to waste yards or depots, the majority is poured into water drainage or dustbins This is quite harmful and causes damages, as it accumulated along the walls of pipelines and may cause plugs in the drainage system, and, if mixed up with communal waste, it shows u pin waste yards or depots as a hardly degradable compound. And if cooking oil gets into living waters, either deliberately or by accident, the effects are even graver and more dangerous: it floats on the surface of rivers and lakes and thus prevents oxygen exchange and can destroy all forms of life in such waters. One drop of used cooking oil can cause pollution to 1 000 litres living water. MOL has now offered an environmentally-friendly solution to this problem, enabling residents to deliver the used cooking oil at its filling stations.
What happens with the collected used cooking oil? This oil is used for producing bio-duel in Komárom, at Rossi Biofuel Plant. Wastes generated during the treatment and purification process (crumbs, meal residues, etc.) as well as by-products of bio-diesel production can be very well used, as feedstock, for biogas production. As a result, the used cooking oil will become a re-cycled and environmentally-friendly product, instead of an environment-polluting waste.
This method and process is in full compliance with the requirements specified in the new EU Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC), where the provisions relevant for transport entered into effect as of January 1, 2011. The Directive attaches great importance to those feedstock and raw materials, which can reduce the quantity of various wastes, in this case, that of the used cooking oil, through encouraging its re-cycling.
