About Us – Lengis Hijau

About Us

Organization History

Recycling Used Cooking Oil and Transforming it into Biodiesel: Combating Climate Change and Poverty on Bali, Indonesia

Project Background

A social enterprise recycles used cooking oil.

Thereby reducing fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

The particular aim of this project is to develop and implement a used cooking oil recycling solution for the tourism sector in Bali. It is planned to recycle between 400 and 600 m³ of used cooking oil per year into biodiesel. By substituting this amount of fossil diesel fuel with biodiesel, about 1,000 to 1,500 tonnes of climate-damaging CO₂ emissions can be avoided.

In addition to the CO₂ mitigation effect, the project reduces the pollution of Bali’s environment and adverse health impacts. In Bali, used cooking oil is commonly discharged directly into the environment and causes pollution of water bodies, groundwater and soil. A big share of the oil is also reused as foodstuff. This share is commonly sold via middlemen and local markets to small food stalls (warungs). The reuse of used cooking oil as foodstuff causes high health risks (cancer, etc.) to consumers, who are often from lower social strata. This practice of selling waste oil as foodstuff can be categorised as highly critical, since the origin of the oil is often not disclosed to customers and its consumption is highly hazardous to health.

Within the project, a nonprofit social enterprise has been set up, which is carrying out the oil recycling business. By establishing the enterprise, jobs for socially disadvantaged people are created and professional knowledge is imparted. In addition, the project improves public awareness of environmental and health issues.

At a Glance

The project in numbers.

400 – 600m³

Used cooking oil to be recycled per year

1,000 – 1,500t

CO₂ emissions avoided per year

340

Hotels and restaurants assessed

2013

Processing plant operational

Baseline Assessment

What we found.

A number of facts that strongly encouraged the project team to implement this recycling project appeared during an intense assessment of the baseline situation. From 340 hotels and restaurants, we found out that:

XX%

PLACEHOLDER – isi temuan 1

XX%

PLACEHOLDER – isi temuan 2

XX%

PLACEHOLDER – isi temuan 3

Solution

A sustainable and safe solution.

Caritas Switzerland, a Swiss-based non-governmental organization, developed a sustainable and safe solution for used cooking oil disposal. The recycling project has been developed in cooperation with the Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs (MoU signed on 26 July 2010 and amended on 7 June 2011), with the City of Denpasar and the Environment Authority of Denpasar (Cooperation Agreement No. 193/01/PKS/BKS/2012; No. 069/CACH-BALI/VI/201).

The processing plant has been operational since January 2013, when Caritas Switzerland established a used cooking oil recycling system. The local NGO Lengis Hijau has been founded and will in future manage the oil recycling.

26 JULY 2010

MoU Signed

Memorandum of Understanding with the Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs.

7 JUNE 2011

MoU Amended

The memorandum with the Ministry of Home Affairs is amended.

2012

Local Cooperation

Cooperation Agreement with the City of Denpasar and the Environment Authority of Denpasar.

JANUARY 2013

Plant Operational

The processing plant starts operating and Lengis Hijau is founded to manage the recycling.

PLACEHOLDER – tempat gambar skema alur daur ulang (Appendix 1) dan tabel detail proyek.

Vision and Mission

What guides Lengis Hijau.

Our Vision

The vision of Yayasan Lengis Hijau is that commercially generated used cooking oil in Bali is recycled in a sustainable manner, thereby mitigating climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting the environment and reducing health risks, while at the same time reducing poverty in Bali.

Our Mission

The mission of Yayasan Lengis Hijau is to provide a long-term, sustainable used cooking oil recycling solution in Bali (without negative social, environmental and health effects) that generates profit, which is partly reinvested in the expansion of the organisation and partly in social and environmental community projects.