Almost any type of used oil can be easily processed and turned into bio diesel. This includes cooking oil, used car oil, industrial lubricants and even animal fat. Although there are some organizations that are collecting this oil to be used as bio diesel feed stock, we are only collecting a very small amount of the oil that can be potentially collected. Worst than that is the fact that when this oil is not collected for reuse it is thrown away and contaminates our soil and our environment.
 
Often collecting small amounts of cooking oil from restaurants doesn’t make financial sense, because the cost to operate collection trucks, tanks and all the necessary equipment compared with the relatively small amount of oil does not make sense. In most cases if you can find a source that will generate larger amounts of oil like a large commercial plant that becomes more financially sensible for bio diesel manufacturers.
 
Our idea is to find ways that will make it logical to collect even smaller amounts of oil. If the collection of oil was a city project involving high school kids as a community volunteering/ educational project and/ or the city would provide work to unemployed people who are looking for a job, the collection of oil would become a great local town or city project for every community. There are tanks that can be easily installed in any restaurant that will make the collection easy, fast and non intrusive allowing the waste oil to constantly flow to a tank located outside of the restaurant so that the tank can be empties or replaced by an empty tank without interrupting the restaurant business. Oil could and should be collected from every car oil change business, manufacturing facility using industrial lubricants, animal processing facilities generating animal fat and every business generating access oil products.
 
Once collected, the “dirty” oil can be sold to manufacturers or a community owned manufacturing facility can be easily set up. Turning the old oil into good usable bio diesel is very simple, requires a relatively small investment and a small staff to operate. Turning old oil into bio diesel can become a very profitable business and once a gas station net work is set up, the bio diesel can be sold directly to the gas stations. This model can be offered to business people that would like to start a business in addition to or instead of creating city owned facilities.
 
We would be willing to create a prototype New York based collection operation as well as a manufacturing facility in order to develop a model that can later be used nationally and internationally