A Dubai-based company makes used vegetable oil into fuel for cars
Dubai-based Lootah Biofuels produces biodiesel from used vegetable oil, providing environmentally friendly transportation opportunities in a large oil-producing country.
The result is a less expensive, renewable and clean fuel.
The company from the United Arab Emirates now boasts its own gas stations throughout Dubai, supplying 60 million liters of fuel per year.
This is the brainchild of Yousif bin Saeed Al Lutha, who wants the UAE to become the first country in the region to require the use of biofuel mixtures along with other fuels at all public stations.
They pay for the collected used cooking oil, thereby stimulating suppliers such as restaurants, bakeries and food chains that supply 500,000 liters of used oil every month.
The company claims that last year it processed used oil into 770 tons of biofuel.
The Lootah Biofuels website reports that the vegetable oil used has the highest carbon saving ratio of all available biodiesel raw materials, and estimates that their product has so far reduced CO2 emissions by 500 million tons.
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