Mafuta Sasa Goes into Biodiesel Production
by Zaynab Turuku (The East African) In the wake of efforts to clean up the environment and mitigate against climate change through a reduction in the burning of fossil fuels, Dar es Salaam-based Mafuta Sasa Ltd is now producing biodiesel from waste vegetable oil.
Currently, the company collects waste vegetable oil from 60 hotels in Dar es Salaam and produces 10,000 litres of biodiesel per week. … The firm says it will increase production to 15,000 litres per week if its gets sufficient waste vegetable oil.
Spokesman Stefano Grasso said the company had found a productive way of utilising the waste oil which would otherwise be sold on the used oil market for food processing purposes with negative consequences on the health of consumers, or be dumped into water ways and water bodies where it causes serious pollution. He further said that one litre of waste oil can pollute up to one square kilometre if dumped in the ocean. …
Also in the company sights are plans to collect waste vegetable oil from Zanzibar and Arusha, United States of America and the United Kingdom to increase production.