Dubai recycles 50,000 gallons of cooking oil everyday

Every single day, 14,000 eateries across Dubai discard roughly 80,000 gallons (302,832 litres) of cooking fats, oil and grease from some of our most favourite kitchens, enough to fill 1,600 average-sized bathtubs, accordingly to Gulfnews. 

But thanks to a public-private partnership called Envirol inked in 2006 between Dubai Municipality and Blue — an eco firm owned by Al Serkal Group — up to 50,000 gallons (189,279 litres) of the contaminated greasy waste in Dubai are being collected from 7,000 eateries and transported to Blue’s recycling plant in Al Warsan.

The Blue recycling process converts 70 per cent of the oil waste to clean water to be used for irrigation, a further 20 per cent is converted to fertiliser for farming and gardening with the final 10 per cent turned into a refined oil to be converted to environment-friendly biodiesel.

Environmental protection is about to be strengthened as Blue expands its recycling plant to double its daily recycling capacity to 100,000 gallons per day to prepare for a growing Dubai food sector that is expected to reach 19,000 eateries by 2020.