In Argentina every 15 days a hotel throws away about 40 liters of used oil. According to the Hotel and Gastronomic Association of Iguazú (Aghai), this fact generates a huge expense and a disturbance to the environment when getting rid of it.
For this reason, an initiative is being carried out in the town of Iguazú that seeks to transform this input, which was not clearly used, into biofuel and in this way counteract the high impact it generates as waste, while resolving a situation that "always caused concern," they say from Aghai.
Another advantage that is evident when recycling this used oil is the cushioning in the costs that both hotels and gastronomic establishments must assume in what has to do with the transfer of the input for its final disposal.
To this process was added the direction of Culture of Iguazú, in the search to create awareness also in residential establishments, so it installed a collection point to collect household oils.
According to Carlos Krumpkam, president of the Association, "the separation and transfer plant began operating at the beginning of last year with a contribution made by the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) and which is managed by the Ministry of Tourism of Argentina.
Currently the plant receives a total of 50 tons per day of this type of waste, after going through a treatment process it is commercialized. "The surplus is transferred for final disposal by the company Aesa to the landfill in Caraguatay," Krumpkam explained.
