*Merseyside and Halton residents are urged to recycle their used cooking oil for a charity drive to benefit Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.* Living Fuels has teamed up with Veolia and Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority (MRWA) to raise money for Alder Hey Children’s Charity, with a new...
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This Earth Day, we are taking the opportunity to celebrate the cooking oil recycling success of UK residents. Energy to brew over two hundred million cups of tea was generated last year thanks to the recycling efforts of residents across the UK. Pouring oil down the sink creates blockages...
Merseyside and Halton residents are urged to recycle their used cooking oil this summer for our charity drive to benefit Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Living Fuels has teamed up with Veolia and the Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority (MRWA) to raise money for Alder Hey Children’s...
Households are encouraged to ‘stop and think, not down the sink’ for used cooking oil this Earth Day. Organizers are aiming to reach 2 billion ‘acts of green’ across the world for Earth Day on April 22 this year, and you can help by recycling your used cooking oil. Recycling your used cooking...
In 2014, Living Fuels collected enough used cooking oil to power over 15,000 homes nationwide. This record breaking amount that has been collected from across the UK proves that attitudes and awareness of recycling used cooking have turned a corner this year. Just look at those stats! It...
UK householders mistakenly believe a water company picks up the bill should a drain on their premises become blocked. So said 58% of adults targeted in a recent UK YouGov poll. If the drain is blocked within the boundary of their house, it’s the homeowner who ends up footing the bill. Yet...
Energy to brew over two million cups of tea was generated in 2013, thanks to the recycling efforts of West Sussex residents. The recycling scheme, which sees used cooking oil recovered into environmentally friendly electricity for the National Grid, was implemented in June 2012 by West Sussex...
Residents across Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham are being praised for undertaking five years of used cooking oil recycling, helping to power the UK with carbon neutral electricity. Each of the fourteen household waste and recycling centres in the area were provided with tanks in 2008 and...
Whether you stayed at home for a night in, or went out and partied like it was, uh, 2014, Living Fuels wishes you a happy, healthy and green New Year. Now, we don’t want to start the new year on a preachy note, however, on coming back to the office we saw this news story by the BBC...
Turn your used cooking oil into energy by recycling it at one of the county’s household recycling centres this Christmas. Shropshire Council and its recycling contractor Veolia have partnered with Living Fuels to transform the oil into much needed renewable energy. Five household recycling...
From its humble beginnings in Ancient Greece, where poet Homer described it as ‘liquid gold’ to food establishments around the world, cooking oil has come along way. Despite receiving negative press in the past in regards to health benefits, it is now widely accepted that in reasonable...
A new initiative which is giving a fresh lease of life to hundreds of tonnes of waste cardboard has been launched at West Suffolk Hospital. The recycling scheme has seen a compactor installed in the hospital grounds where old cardboard is crushed before it is sold to a local company to be...
Diwali or Deepavali is a five day festival of light, of the triumph of good over evil. It is celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs all over the world and is a time for great happiness and celebration. It is also seen as a festival of wealth and auspiciousness. There are many ways to celebrate...
Living Fuels has been expanding its business and therefore are now accepting waste cooking oil from businesses in the Midlands and East Anglian regions. Our dedicated collections staff will be happy to schedule your business in for a weekly, fortnightly or as-needed collection, straight from...
A used cooking oil recycling scheme which sees Lincolnshire residents recycling waste oil into renewable energy is celebrating its fifth year. The scheme, which aims to divert waste cooking oil from sewers, was installed by Lincolnshire Council in 2008. Currently, an estimated 129,000...
Suffolk residents are being praised by St John Ambulance, after a used cooking oil collection campaign across the county saw £550 raised for the charity. The campaign, spearheaded by Suffolk County Council in partnership with FCC Environment and eco-firm Living Fuels, saw a ten pence donation...
Residents are being reminded to stop pouring used cooking oil down the sink and instead recycle it at their local household waste and recycling centre, for recovery into clean, green energy. Thanks to a scheme implemented by Wigan Council, in partnership with FCC Environment, residents can...
Living Fuels, in partnership with parent company, REG Bio-Power, are proud to announce their sponsorship of the Feltwell United Football Club. The team practice near the birthplace of Living Fuels, and therefore were a natural choice for sponsorship. Ian Collins, REG Bio-Power’s Managing...
From July until the end of September we are working alongside Suffolk County Council and FCC Environment to donate 10p per litre of used cooking oil, collected at household waste and recycling centres in the county, to St John Ambulance. We talk to St John Ambulance District Manager for the...
Durham County Council is encouraging residents to recycle their used cooking oil at twelve household waste recycling centres throughout the county. The new initiative, organised by the council in partnership with waste contractor HW Martin Waste Ltd, will enable residents to dispose of their...
Residents of Cheltenham are being urged to recycle their used cooking oil at the Swindon Road recycling centre, for recovery into renewable electricity. Currently, UK water companies are spending an estimated £15 million each year on clearing drains blocked by the improper disposal of cooking...
The recent 15 tonne fatberg found beneath the streets of London has captured the attention of the national media. Cries of ‘disgusting’ and ‘foul’ resonated across twitter as news broke that a mass of oil, fat and faeces was reported festering under the Royal Borough of Kingston. No one can...
Residents of Wakefield are being urged to recycle their used cooking oil into renewable energy for the National Grid. Currently water companies spend around £15 million each year on clearing pipework clogged by waste cooking oil disposed of down drains. However, in a new scheme...
On 9th July Ramadan, the holiest month in the Muslim calendar, will be upon us again. Each year Muslims are encouraged to reflect on their time on earth and their impact upon it. Taking that into consideration, why not think about food waste and recycling this year, whether it be buying unpacked...
An innovative new charity drive which encourages residents to recycle their used cooking oil into cash for charity whilst at the same time increasing the area’s green credentials will start in July. In a tri-party scheme between Suffolk County Council, waste contractor FCC Environment and...
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