Getting Oil for Biodiesel???? PRACTICAL REAL WORLD

[hammersley]

OK - there are companies locally starting to make this stuff..... how much oil can you get from a McDonalds?? I mean what is the actual experience - I mean what setup do you need to actually obtain the oil????? And do you need 3 stores/5 or what to get enough for say 60-80 gallons / week???

 

[DavidGardner]

Last time I heard that all the restuarants are selling their used french fry oil to companys who contract with them to pick it up. I remember over 25 yrs ago when I was in law enforcement that we would get complaints of people stealing used cooking oil out of containers behind resturants. This makes me wonder who all these people who are burning used restuant cooking oil are getting this oil and is it free? If so many people are doing it then the price will go higher than the pump price for diesel. The old law of supply and demand.



Just my 2 cents worth.

David Gardner

 

[hammersley]

That's my fear as well.

Lots of folks are talking but not many are acting on this.

 

[GIT-R-DONE]

Personally I wonder about the legality of doing this. The state wont put up for it for long as they will be losing out of their tax dollar.

 

[RonA]

Most of the info about "All the free oil you want" comes from places that are trying to sell you a 3k or 4k system to make Bio. I checked with several large chains through my kids friends that worked at them. Not a chance was the standard reply. Only larger place I found that was actually giving it away to an individual was a Long John Silver fish place. Every thing I have found has been small. 3 gallons a week here, 7 gallons a week there. I had a source for about 18 gallons a week, but it was a donut shop. I researched it and they say not to use oil from a donut or cake shop. I don't need alot as I don't drive alot. But don't expect it to be easy to get 80 gallons a week.

 

[guava]

First the legalities of it. Restaurants that contract with oil collection companies are paying for the company to provide a waste container and paying for the company to dispose of the oil. The Restaurant doesn't care how or where. So if a person just drives out back can takes it out of the collection container, it is theft from the company providing the container.



I have never seen a oil collection contract so I don't know if there is any exclusive rights to the oil that prevents the restaurant from giving it to you the Bio-Diesel maker.



Restaurants like to save money as much as the next person and by giving it to you rather than paying someone else, they save money. When I met with the manager of the place I want to use, we just agreed that I could collect it prior to it hitting the recycling companies container.



As far as amounts of oil, I don't know. Each restaurant is different. The owner/manager would best answer that based on consumption.

 

[surfbeetle]

So why not contact these companies that take the oil away from the restaurants? They have to get rid of it somewhere. Maybe they can be the wvo supplier.

 

[TCornish]

They sell it. A friend of mine used to work for an oil collection place and they sell it. It used to be used for making the make up that women wear. My friend used to pull up behind places and snatch it for free, but said not to get caught by the company that had the contract to haul it away.

 

[guava]

So why not contact these companies that take the oil away from the restaurants? They have to get rid of it somewhere. Maybe they can be the wvo supplier.

It is an asset to them. They would happily sell it to you but that would defeat the purpose. Gotta get it before the restaurant gives it to them.