Have used cooking oil? Throw not, CFC will buy

By BONG PEDALINO (PIA Southern Leyte)
October 9, 2007

MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte  –  Restaurants, eateries, and fast foods chains here better take note:  instead of just throwing away your oily wastes, why not keep those and get paid by doing so?

Rudy Sacnahon, in-charge of Couples for Christ’s (CFC) Tekton livelihood social ministry, offered this much to owners and operators of food outlets here who are definitely using cooking oil in their choice menus.

“Please collect your used cooking oil, do not throw it away, and personnel from CFC will fetch it and pay you P25 per gallon,” Sacnahon said in a statement aired over the radio and soon at Cable TV.

He said the collected used cooking oil will be processed or recycled to become biodiesel to fuel four-wheel cars and other vehicles.

Sacnahon has been widely known as the one producing biodiesel for his own vehicle and other fellow CFC members right after having learned the technology last year shared by a Maasinhon inventor Rico Cruz, now residing in Idaho, USA.

Aside from the monetary motivation in keeping the used cooking oil, Sacnahon urged restaurant owners that they will also be helping in reducing global warming, since the fuel derived from liquid, oily wastes were smoke-free and were proven harmless to the environment.