REUSE OF WASTE COOKING OIL INTO A MULTIPURPOSE CANDEL AS A BASIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR RESIDENT OF RW 07 KELURAHAN DURI PULO JAKARTA PUSAT

Abstract

In this pandemic period, people are required to be more creative and able to see the slightest opportunity. Although these opportunities come from waste that is usually discarded or not reused, such as waste cooking oil. Waste cooking oil is usually thrown into the sewer. Therefore, proper handling is needed so that waste cooking oil is beneficial and does not cause harm from aspects of human health and the environment. Various efforts have been made, one of them by making candles from used cooking oil.The location of this community service activity is in RW 07, Duri Pulo Village, Central Jakarta. The main purpose of community service activity at this location is to provide training and knowledge to housewives of RW 07 Kelurahan Duri Pulo, Central Jakarta regarding the importance of processing the waste cooking oil waste in order to provide added value that can improve their life economy. Candles are an object that has a fairly important role in human daily life, especially when there is no electricity. Socialization and training are the methods chosen in this community service activity. This is because direct learning is easier to remember than just counseling. This activity went smoothly and received good enthusiasm from the housewives of RW 07 Duri Pulo Village, Central Jakarta. These housewives asked our team to regularly held this community service activity and even suggested to conduct further research on the purification of the waste cooking oil so that it is safe to reuse like a new cooking oil