Most households still dispose of used cooking oil or waste cooking oil (jelantah). A survey conducted by the Katadata Insight Center (KIC) in August-September 2020 involving 140 Indonesian households revealed that approximately 64 percent of respondents directly discarded their used cooking oil.
Lack of awareness regarding the benefits or proper disposal channels for used cooking oil is a major problem. Around 73 percent of households stated they did not know how to utilize used cooking oil. Nearly 39 percent of respondents also did not know where to sell their waste cooking oil. Furthermore, 34 percent of respondents admitted to simply discarding it due to inconvenience.
Waste cooking oil has the potential to be processed into biodiesel feedstock. In 2019, with a total Indonesian cooking oil consumption of 13 million liters, there was a potential 7.8 million liters of waste cooking oil for biodiesel production.
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