Oil goes full cirlce

It’s an application (both web and mobile) that helps encourage and facilitate efficient UCO management through accurate and real-time information on its disposal, transport and processing.

By providing accurate and timely information, this app will help raise people’s awareness and move them to take appropriate action in their direct vicinity/community—therefore contributing to the local ‘circular economy’.

Currently, there are UCO collection initiatives, and biodiesel refineries, and stores selling refined UCO products—but they are all in ‘separate islands’, they don’t even know the others existed, and people in the communities don’t know it either.

This app is crucial to facilitate communication and streamline the efforts, bringing this ‘circular economy’ to life and making ‘sustainability’ real.

what is it?

what is the aim?

why is it important?

The app contains accurate, real-time information showing locations of collection points, amount/volume of UCO disposed, collection schedules, status of disposed UCO (in transport, processed in refinery), volume of biodiesel and other products available, etc. It is equipped with all the necessary action buttons and toggles to help navigate within the apps and take action, and GPS maps. There might also be live camera in the collection points, biodiesel refinery—showing live footage of collection and production processes.

The information may include, but not limited to: how UCO is disposed of currently, what is its impact on the environment (short- and long-term), the proper disposal (describing collection strategies, collection points, transport method), proper way to transport UCO from home to collection point, collection schedules, how UCO is being refined and processed (biodiesel, soap and other products), options to match people who ‘want to dispose’ and ‘want to use’ UCO in their communities (some people might have their own processing plant which requires UCO as raw ingredient), locations of such independent UCO processing plants.

Take it one step further to complete the full circle: locations of biodiesel bulk and retail sales, locations of stores that sell products made from refined UCO, locations of local farmers and restaurants that use biodiesel and refined UCO products (facilitating households and communities who want to procure from ‘green’ businesses).

In turn, these households and communities will continue the cycle.

how does it work?