Biodiesel: kitchen oil to sell.?

Question

Who or where can I sell my mixed kitchen oils? I live in Riverside, Ca. I have 10 bottles aprox. I know that the oils are of different sources animal (chicken, bacon, salmon, trout) and mostly canola, vegatable, olive, safflower. The grease fat has been filtered it has some impurities and is stored in glass and plastic bottles of various types. I'm not sure of the exact mixtures in each bottle but I figure someone could use this oil to make biodiesel since I don't know how. I have used some of this oil with 20% kerosene to start my camp fires while camping and it certainly fires up well. If anyone is interested please let me know. If you know anyone who is interested contact me here.

Answer 1

put an ad in the paper and someone will call you wanting it like mad.  Just set your price at like 50cents a gallon and start the bidding.

Answer 2

Ten bottles of various sizes.  Still, that doesn't sound like much oil, unless they are gallon jugs, and even then, that still isn't much as far as people who refine the stuff for fuel are concerned.  I don't know that there is much of a market yet for small amounts of used cooking oil.  You might try finding someone locally who drives a diesel (and refines it) to sell it to, but you'd be lucky to get much of anything for it.  If, however, you can assure that person of a steady supply, there probably would be more willingness on their part to pay you something for it.  (Maybe you could start collecting it from individuals and go into that business: of making used oil available and giving people a location at which to drop off their used oil.  If you had a small deisel vehicle yourself, you might even be able to do pickups of used oil.)

See my list of questions, I asked about the possibility of recycling used household cooking oil.