Private Enterprises: Waste Oil Transformed into Biofuels

Almost every day, a vehicle carrying a GPS positioning system shuttles through the streets of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. They collect the restaurant's waste oil and send it to designated locations.

These vehicles belong to Jiangsu Clean Environment Technology Co., Ltd. It is a company that specializes in recycling restaurant waste oil and further processing. Xu Yongsheng, head of the Corporate Development Department of Jiangsu Clean Environment Technology Co., Ltd., told the China Economic Times that each restaurant has a “kitchen garbage”, and these oils are processed through high-end technologies to produce biodiesel and used as raw materials. Some foreign oil companies continue to process aviation fuel.

With the promulgation of the State Council's Order No. 36, some local governments have also issued some favorable policies and proposed the unified treatment of food waste. This provides a good opportunity for biofuel companies.

Xu Yongsheng said that the company has custom-developed a complete information flow platform, from "ditch oil" to entering the company's reprocessing, to becoming a product and sales, and conducting full supervision from start to finish, specifying the whereabouts of each drop of waste oil, real time Monitoring, information collection, and sharing with the municipal authorities, providing scientific and accurate monitoring data for the supervisors, ensuring a healthy cycle of food waste logistics, avoiding return to the table, and solving the problem of oil sources at the source.

In Qingdao, Shandong, there is also a company called Forris Bio-energy Technology Development Co., Ltd., which is doing the same thing. They better solved the source of raw materials. Wang Jinyan of the company's information department said in an interview with the China Economic Times that the company has cooperated with the local financial department and catering department, established a good relationship with the catering industry association of Shandong Province, established a complete collection and transportation system, and set up a special Departments, training specialists, and professional agencies are responsible for this.

Although both companies are doing the same thing, in terms of collection, the cost of Jiangsu Clean Environment Technology Co., Ltd. is much lower than that of Freescale Bio-Energy Technology Development Co., Ltd. The former directly connects with the rebate restaurants, and takes no charge without paying. Principles, while the latter rely on third-party forces to collect fees.

Regardless of the mode of collection, these companies believe that the state's efforts to crack down on the illegal extraction of cooking oil into edible oil and to ban these illegal enterprises are conducive to the collection of raw materials for bioenergy development.

“Our company has been commissioned by the Suzhou Municipal Government to integrate the collection, transportation and disposal of restaurant-kitchen garbage. The first phase has been put into use. After the completion of the second phase of the year, the daily restaurant garbage disposal capacity can reach 600 tons per day. Daily processing of 300 tons of kitchen waste calculation, can achieve profits of 10 million yuan / year." Xu Yongsheng said.

China's biofuel companies generally adopt a collection and transportation subsidy plus a treatment subsidy, together with a government buy-out model to provide sales.

Businesses are optimistic about the market prospects of biomass fuels. However, whether Xu Yongsheng or Wang Jinyan, they all expressed the hope that the state will do a good job in legislation, law enforcement, and corruption in the law, and that there are laws that can be followed and suit local conditions. In accordance with the actual local conditions, we must deal with restaurant waste, and we can consider Joint health, industry and commerce, ** and other multi-sectoral departments jointly handle the matter; at the same time, the state must intensify its efforts to crack down on small workshops for illegally purifying ground oil as edible oil and crack down on illegal collection and transportation.