...To Establish Collection System for Used Cooking Oil for Biodiesel

FSSAI also has been in talks with the India Biodiesel Association to establish a nationwide ecosystem for the collection of used coconut oil to be converted to biodiesel. This comes as new regulations for the monitoring of ‘used cooking oils’ came into effect in the country for July 01. 

Annually, the country consumes about 23 million tons of cooking oil according to FSSAI with potential to recover and use about 3 million tons of used oil for biodiesel production.  At present, used cooking is often disposed of in an environmentally hazardous manner, causing pollution and choking sewage systems. At times, the oil is reused by small restaurants and street vendors.