The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has announced that it is set to mend a leak in existing regulations governing waste oil management and ban the export of waste cooking oil collected without government permission from homes and food stands.
Existing regulations strictly stipulate the way waste cooking oil produced at restaurants, fast food chains and food processing companies can be handled, but fail to address similar waste from homes and food stands.
As a result, recyclers of cooking oil from these sources are able to sell waste oil overseas without any permits.
To prevent waste oil from being used in an inappropriate way after being sold abroad, the EPA has decided to amend regulations as part of its effort to improve its waste oil recycling mechanism, an EPA official said.
The new regulation is scheduled to take effect by the end of next month, EPA Department of Waste Management Acting Director-General Lai Ying-ying (賴瑩瑩) said.
The rule stipulates that recycled cooking oil from “non-corporate entities,” such as homes, schools and institutional organizations, can only be exported to member-states of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with the consent of the governments of the relevant nations.
Asked why OECD countries were chosen, Lai said they have reliable recycling operators able to treat and reuse waste oil properly.
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