Negara Brunei Darussalam
HOW TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY?
If you pour your waste cooking
oil DOWN THE SINK, DRAIN OR
TO THE GROUND - STOP!
WHY?
• The oil will block your house
drains and the sewers.
• The soil will become sealed
off and your plants cannot
grow.
• Bacteria will accumulate
where the oil is poured.
• Aquatic life might not get
enough oxygen.
• Pest and rodents will be
attracted to the oil.
WASTE COOKING OIL
HOW TO DISPOSE YOUR COOKING
OIL WASTE?
• Small amount of cooking oil, such as
meat drippings, can be soaked up
with a paper towel and thrown into
the trash.
WHAT TO DO WITH WASTE
COOKING OIL?
• POUR the used cooking oil into a
sturdy closed-lid coffee can, and
dispose of it in the trash.
ARE YOU AWARE OF THE
• When there is a recycling centre for HEALTH HAZARD?
waste cooking oil, send the oil you
have collected for recycling.
• In small quantity pour the oil onto a
compost pile. This brochure was produced by RAFFLESIA team as part
of a MASE project at Universiti Brunei Darussalam
(visit http://www.compost-bin.com).
October 2006
 Waste Cooking Oil
Alternatives to
• Also known as USED COOKING Cooking Oil
OIL of food by home cooks, res- Do you love eating meat?
taurant chefs, industrial kitchens Have your meat cooked without
and caterers.
oil.

Did you know that.. How?

Wrap the meat in foil and cook it
• your used cooking oil contains a
on a grill. Works for fish too!
toxic compound called 4-hydroxy-
2-nonenal (HNE).
Try steam cooking
So is it BAD to our health? Steamed food is more nutritious
than those fried food. Try it!
• YES, because accumulated HNE
will react with our DNA, amino
Heard of non-stick cooking spray?
acids and other biomolecules in
It works like a cooking oil. It
our body and increase our
chances of getting diseases such prevents sticking, yet eliminates

as the unwanted fat and calories

associated with cooking oil.
• HEART DISEASES,
This cooking spray is available at
• STROKE, the local supermarket.
• PARKINSON’S DISEASE,

• ALZHEIMER’s DISEASE &

• LIVER DISEASE. More information on HNE can be viewed at http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/Feature_Stories/Change_your_oil_every_day.html