How to collect waste vegetable oil from restaurants?

What you'll learn are the steps to collect waste vegetable oil from restaurants

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Clean Oil containers
• a hand pump
• heavy duty gloves
• towel or paper towels
• a large plastic bin
• headlamp
• funnel or pitcher

1. Find a restaurant that you know uses oil to fry their foods. Avoid fast food chains and animal based restaurants: such as KFC's.

2. Ask the owner of the restaurant if you can collect his waste vegetable, chances are, he'll say yes. Always ask, do not steal the oil.

3. If the oil bin is a drum, use the pitcher and scoop the top of the oil and our the oil into the large funnel into the oil container. Repeat as needed.

4. If the oil bin is a large 300 gallon oil container, you should use the hand pump. Place the pump inside the container.

5. Set the oil container next to the spout of the hand pump, and start pumping, the oil should flow right in, without spilling all over the place.

6. After the oil, is done collecting, please clean up, and leave the place better than you found it.

Tips & Warnings

• Please ask, collecting without permission is stealing, and don't share your sources. Brag about collecting, but don't tell where you collect, it will ruin it for everyone.
• collecting oil is messy and it can ruin your car. Oil is slippery so be cautious. The reason why people won't let you collect is because of the liability.