South Jakarta Turns Used Cooking Oil into Alms

(Jakarta Post) The South Jakarta Environment Agency has collected used cooking oil from households and turned it into alms. The agency teamed up with Kutub Social House Foundation to pick up used cooking oil in jerrycans across the municipality, where people could donate their used cooking oil rather than throwing it out.

South Jakarta Environment Agency head Enrile Indro Prasetyo said the collected used cooking oil would be sold to companies that needed it for producing fuel.

“The profit from the sale of the oil would be used for social programs for the poor, orphans and others,” Enrile said on Tuesday, wartakota.tribunnews.comreported, adding that residents should participate by collecting their used cooking oil in their homes.