Thailand: BMA to promote production of bio-diesel from oil vegetable oil

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The Department of Public Cleansing under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is hastily pushing forward the project of producing bio-diesel from old vegetable oil. Once this project has been approved by the BMA executives, the department believes that the fuel consumption would be decreased, and the chance for people to have cancer would also be reduced as old vegetable oil is one of the causes of this disease.Mr. Nikom Waiyaratpanich, the Director of the Department of Public Cleansing, said this project is being experimented in Prachaniwet School in Chatuchak. He said the plan to produce bio-diesel from old vegetable oil is waiting for the endorsement from the BMA executives.Mr. Nikom said his department has allocated a budget to procure machines to examine the cancer-causing chemicals, and these machines will be available in every district of Bangkok to suppress food operators who are using old vegetable oil.Mr. Nikom said this project had been carried out earlier but experienced a difficulty in storing old vegetable oil in households and establishments. However, he said the BMA will ask the business operators to help monitor the companies that buy old vegetable oil, in order to prevent them to be reused or resold. The BMA will also ask residents to install oil clarifiers so that they do not have to dispose old vegetable oil in canals.

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