OCCUM BILL ALERT! Cooking oil used to heat restaurants

Cooking oil used to heat restaurants

Restaurants may soon be heated by recycling cooking oil.

Ed Rich who runs the Culver's diner in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, has installed a special boiler that burns old vegetable oil to warm water.

If the scheme is a success, the company's chiefs will recommend it to all their franchisees.

The recyling would cut pollution and reduce the damaging effects of waste oil.

Ed, came up with the idea after reading about the rise in Europe of car engines being converted to run on biodiesel made from old chip oil.

According to The Sun he said: "My mother's from Germany so I've seen how they recycle. If we all do our part, it can make a difference."