Identifying Waste Cooking Oil Chains to Become an Energy Resource: Study Case in Yogyakarta

Abstract

. Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) is classified as municipal waste that potentially could pollute the environment. The form of the chains for waste cooking oil management has never been identified so the benefits are still unknown to the community. Up till now, waste cooking oil is always dumped into drains or sold to third-party collectors for converting it to be residual bulk oil. The risk of dumping waste cooking oil into drains can make the water source pollution. If it is reprocessed for human consumption, it can cause diseases. The added value of waste cooking oil is when converted to energy resource. In Yogyakarta, the chains for waste cooking oil management involved waste banks and Bumdes X that came from Bantul regency. Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) method was used to determine the added value of the waste cooking oil chains so that it can be used as an energy resource. The BCR for existed WCO chains was less than one because the research didn’t consideration illegal chains.