update:February 28, 2010

10. Used Cooking Oil

Collection of Used Cooking Oil

We formerly asked you to discard used cooking oil as combustible waste, but from April 2007, please put it in garbage collection site on the collection day for Non-Combustible Waste and Hazardous/Toxic Waste as resources.

By separately collected used cooking oil (vegetable oil only) and recycling it, we can reduce the amount of the garbage to be incinerated and the emission of CO2, which is considered the major factor in global warming.

The used cooking oil is sold to a recycling company, and recycled into fuel, livestock food, paint and so on.

Instructions

• 1. Remove the label from a PET bottle (500ml).
• 2. Rinse the inside.
• 3. Fill the used cooking oil (vegetable oil only) in the PET bottle.
  (Do not fill the bottle with hot oil.)
• 4. Put on the cap.
• 5. Write “Cooking Oil” on the PET bottle.　(write the Japanese letters “ 食用油 ” if you can.)
• 6. Leave the bottle in the garbage collection site, on the collection day for Non-Combustible Waste and Hazardous/Toxic Waste (once a month.)
  

The label is plastic-packaging.

 Special Requests

Whenever possible, please re-use the cooking oil used for deep frying for other cooking (to fry vegetables, for example), and leave it at the garbage collection site when left.

※ Animal oil, such as lard, is still considered combustible waste.