Living Fuels to collect London cooking oil

Living Fuels, a Norfolk-based renewable energy firm, is to start collecting cooking oil to generate electricity from London.

The firm has established cooking oil collection tanks at recycling centres in 14 London boroughs including Tower Hamlets, Haringey and Newham.

Once collected, the recycled oil will be taken to Living Fuel’s Hockwold facility to convert it into biofuel, which will then be used to run a generator.

Business development director David Leivesley told RWM that the company had received a lot of interest at the RWM show and that, as well as local authorities it recycles oil from "schools and companies such as Bird’s Eye and Premier Food".

Gordon Gardner, operations manager, told the publication: "200 litres of used cooking oil is enough to produce electricity to run six houses for four weeks."

Meanwhile, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is offering to collect cooking oil from businesses for free, having realised the value of the oil which can be used in biodiesel production.