TO prevent used cooking oils from ending up in the sewers and polluting the water, Gecco, a company based in Lille, France, recovers used edible oil from professionals, but also from individuals, to recycle it into biodiesel.
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Running vehicles on used frying oil is a no-brainer for Gecco in Lille. A patented process, it enables this food waste to be recovered and converted into biodiesel.
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Gecco strikes oil
Gecco was created with the aim of benefiting ecological and interdependent transition, by offering solutions for the local and innovative recovery of waste, thus helping to reduce it. Since 2007, Gecco has specialized in catering waste.
In this way, the Lille-based company has been recovering cooking oil from professionals and individuals to recycle it into biodiesel.
Today, it recovers oil from over 2,050 establishments, collecting some 4,000 tonnes of waste in 2019. Once collected, the oil is treated, filtered and mixed with ethanol.
Up to 30% of it can be incorporated into a traditional diesel fuel. Consequently, the company's director, Michel Milaeres, plans to operate his business according to an interdependent, social model.
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