Chinese gas stations started offering recycled gutter oil

Almaty. November 1. Silkroadnews - Chinese gas stations started offering recycled gutter oil, Xinhua News Agency reported.
“Twenty sanitary vehicles filled biodiesel produced from recycled gutter oil at a Sinopec gas station in Shanghai on Tuesday, marking recycled waste fuel entering the fuel market in China,” the report said.
Two tanks with biodiesel fuel have been installed in the gas station in the Fengxian district. Fuel is being sold at a price of 5.72 yuan ($0.86) per liter versus 6.02 yuan for standard diesel fuel.
According to the oil company, another gas station in the Pudong district is also ready to begin selling the biodiesel.
Yang Jinsong, director of the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration, said that sales of biodiesel by Sinopec marked the debut of biofuel made from grease traps oil and used cooking oil on China’s fuel market. He also added, the Shanghai municipal government would continue to encourage the market-oriented production and sale of biodiesel and will allow it to be used in the city’s buses, ambulances, cargo trucks and cargo ships on the Yangtze River.
Lou Diming, a professor at the School of Automotive Studies at Tongji University in Shanghai, said that biodiesel produces 10% less heavy metals and fine particles, and 80% less nitric oxide compared to ordinary diesel.
“Shanghai recovers 150 tonnes of gutter oil daily on average. Recycling the waste has provided incentives for waste oil recovery from restaurants,” the agency quoted saying by Zheng Shusong, deputy secretary general of the Shanghai Food Safety Work Federation. According to him, before restaurants used to pay for the used oil disposal, now they can sell it to refineries for recycling.
“The city government has designated Shanghai Zhongqi Environment Technology Co. Ltd to dispose of the city's leftover cooking oil and turn it into biodiesel. The company previously provided the fuel on small scale for 104 buses and 32 sanitary vehicles in Shanghai. By the end of September, the company had sold 5.86 million liters of biodiesel, however, the sales mainly depended on government subsidies,” the publication reads.
Reportedly, the municipal government in many provinces of China, such as Anhui, Yunnan and Hainan, started promoting using of biodiesel the demonstration projects backed by the government.