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Valencia chooses Cervic Environment to equip its entire city with containers for used domestic oil
300 containers in total will be installed on the streets of all neighborhoods and towns in Valencia
300 containers in total will be installed on the streets of all neighborhoods and towns in Valencia. These containers are specially designed enabling ease of use and as well as being safe and hygienic, they are vandal resistant and have a liquid retention system.
The impact of uncontrolled discharge of used domestic oil into the sewer network is not a minor problem. In fact, the new waste law obliges municipalities to have a separate collection system for used cooking oil because it is a highly polluting waste whose uncontrolled disposal seriously damages rivers, soils and the pipe network in cities.
It is estimated that each consumer generates about four liters of used domestic oil per year. Valencia has about 800,000 inhabitants. We are therefore talking about millions of liters of used oil poured down the drains. If we take into account that a single liter of oil can contaminate 40,000 liters of water, the conclusion is clear: used domestic oil is a major problem.
For these reasons Valencia has decided to procure the services of Cervic Environment, the leading Spanish company in the manufacture of containers for the collection of domestic oil. With a long history proven by the thousands of containers installed throughout many Spanish cities; this gives Cervic Environment an experience and background that no one else has in Spain, and which has allowed it to develop to have the most completed, reliable and competitive range of containers for the collection of used domestic oil on the market. (www.cervicenvironment.com)
The use of the containers by citizens is very simple and easy. Citizens store used oil in empty plastic bottles that they have at their homes, and then take and deposit them (the full bottles with the cap closed) in any of the multiple containers installed on the public roads. Later this oil will be collected by a specialized company, for further treatment.
Used domestic oil, among other purposes, can become a highly valued resource, as for each liter of this type of waste, almost one liter of biofuel for diesel engines can be obtained.
