Jim's Blog - Waste Oil Recyclers

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Gettin Dirty Instead Of Greazy

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Great new article about our friends at Organic Mechanics that are located at the MOGREENA facility with us.

Keep on diggin Mark!

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/station/shows/wcau/10-show/Organic_Mechanic_Philadelphia.html

Good Ship Grease

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We have a fun sense of humor in the processing room. The initial filtration area where the trucks offload seems to always have some sort of floating joke in it.

Where has Rob been lately?

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Just a few pictures of some places where Truck 3 and I have been. Any of these look familiar?

Let me introduce myself!

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Young Sam B. here. I've been interning with WOR since November, and our chief executive oil magnates have instructed me to give this here blog a kick in the ass. And kick I shall! Coming to you soon, replete with pictures, all the greasy details on what we've been up to since last August.

Waste Oil Recyclers on Fox29 Philly News

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Our Shop Heater Burns Waste Vegetable Oil.

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This is a 250,000 BTU Waste Vegetable Oil Heater.

We need to keep our facility at a toasty 85 Degrees Farenheit, and we do it without releasing any hydrocarbon emissions into the air.

Early Morning Thinking Session

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Left: Dr. Zak Skibo, Waste Oil Recyclers' Special Teams co-ordinator.
Right: Jim Bricker, President.

In this photo, Zak and Jim are sharing ideas on how to make setting up new customers' containment both easier for the customer and more efficient for our collection drivers.

Brendan Steer, Waste Oil Recyclers' Sales Manager posing with a pallet of clear frying oil.

Cheesesteak Capital Of The World!

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Truck #3 at 4:15 AM on Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, PA.

We work around the clock to make sure our customers have neat, clean and empty storage containers.

The Company

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The meteoric rise of WOR has propelled our company into the 21st century as a premier Green/Renewable Energy Provider. One of the first in our industry, we're at the cutting edge of Waste Oil Refinement and Recycling for home heating as well as bio-deisel conversion.

How it all started.
Jim Bricker, Brendan Steer and Robert Mastrippolito were three mild mannered people with big dreams on how to help combat the country's energy crisis. Complete reliance on petroleum products was not sustainable as well as an environmentally unfriendly way to provide power. After running across a couple of Popular Science articles and reading up on 'Grease Cars' in Europe and California, Jim decided to convert his 1983 240 D diesel mercedes into a lean mean vegetable oil machine. His success inspired other 'grease' projects and eventually led to the co-founding of Waste Oil Recyclers.

Where we are today.
Right now WOR has expanded into a 5000 sq foot facility. We provide vegetable oil that has been reclaimed from restaurants and filtered to specific Micron ratings, which can be used for heating homes and powering 'grease cars'. Our pick-up service is completely free and our Service Area has expanded from South Eastern Pa and the Delaware Valley all the way to Atlantic City. Today we service some of the most recognizable industries in the region such as: Citizen's Bank Ballpark & Aramark.

Read more about us in the press!

Press Page

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Waste Oil Recyclers Inc. Converts Vegetable Oil to Biodiesel
Published: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, Daily Local - West Chester, PA

By ANNE PICKERING, Staff Writer

Standing with huge vats of recyclable oil are, from left, Jim Bricker, Robert Mastrippolito and Brendan Steer. Their company spent a lot of time experimenting and perfecting the process of filtering and cleaning the waste oil to produce a high-quality, free-fatty acid low in moisture.

MODENA — A complex of aged industrial buildings that sat vacant for years is being reborn as a center of green industry featuring a waste oil recycling plant, an organic potting soil company and an organic landscaping business.

This small, green corner of the borough on a street that the borough recently renamed Phoenix Court is the brainchild of the founders of Waste Oil Recyclers Inc.

The company takes waste vegetable oil produced by hundreds of fryers in the kitchens of restaurants, schools and institutions and produces a high-quality vegetable oil that refineries turn into biodiesel.

Biodiesel is a blend of 1 percent to 100 percent vegetable oil to petroleum diesel.

Business has been good. Until six months ago, regular diesel fuel was selling for more than $5 a gallon. The company has seen its volume in terms of the number of gallons processed a year nearly triple in the last year, said Robert Mastrippolito, one of the three owners, in an interview at their plant Monday.

More waste oil is coming in from restaurants that like the environmental advantages of a product that can be recycled to create fuel.

More refineries that used to only use virgin oil for biodiesel are now using recycled waste oil, which is much cheaper.

Biodiesel is also getting a push from the state, which has mandated that by January 2010 all diesel fuel will have to be B2, which is 2 percent vegetable oil to 98 percent petroleum diesel fuel.

Jim Bricker, another owner, said they used to sell their recycled vegetable oil to refineries in the South, and now refineries in the North, including in Chester, Pa., and New York, purchase it.

The company spent a lot of time experimenting and perfecting the process of filtering and cleaning the waste oil to produce a high-quality, free-fatty acid low in moisture that the refineries want.

The product is used to power the company's own multi-fuel boiler as well as its own trucks.

While the company only sells to large users such as the refineries, the owners are looking to the day when they will be able to sell smaller quantities to people who have multi-fuel boilers to heat homes or as a fuel for vehicles.

When the company was founded about three years ago, the whole operation could fit in one room. With the development of the technology to clean the oil, the company needed more room and didn't have far to look.

"From our old office, we used to sit on the loading dock and look at this old, rusting hulk," said Bricker. The main building on the 3.6-acre site used to be a metal foundry that made cast iron items. The former owner, a paving contractor, just used it to store materials.

When they saw the "for sale" sign go up, they made an offer.

In November, the sale went through. and the borough helped them get the permits. Besides the three owners, the company has four full-time and three part-time workers.

With more room than it needed, the company looked about for tenants who shared the vision of a sustainable planet.

It found Organic Mechanical Soil Co. and Grass Roots Organics. Organic Mechanical produces an organic potting soil (See story, Page A5). Grass Roots is a start-up landscaping company that applies organic fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides.

To contact staff writer Anne Pickering, send an e-mail to apickering@dailylocal.com.

Home

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Our Waste Oil Collection is absolutly FREE , we offer the only truly free waste oil pick-up in Southeastern Pennsylvania. At Waste Oil Recyclers our staff has an extensive background in the food service industry and know what slim margins the average restaurant operates within. Every dollar of savings makes a difference and waste oil collection doesn't have to cost you a cent! Let us show you how to "Go Green"with your waste oil while saving your business money.

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Featured Clients & the number of trees they've off-set!:
Bar Ferdinand, Philadelphia PA

The Bourse Building, Philadelphia PA

Citizen's Bank Park, Philadelphia PA

Crozer - Delaware County Memorial Hospital, Chester PA

El Camino Real, Philadelphia PA

Four Dogs Tavern, Marshalton PA

Ken Shin, Philadelphia PA

Penn's Table Restaurant, West Chester PA

Pietro's Pizza

The Whip Tavern

Planet: Responsibility

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In the U.S. between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths per year are linked to air pollution, which exceeds the number deaths caused by automobile accidents.

Direct causes of air pollution related deaths include aggravated asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, lung and heart diseases, and other respiratory allergies. The US EPA estimates that a proposed set of changes in diesel engine technology and oil recycling (Tier 2) could result in 12,000 fewer premature mortalities, 15,000 fewer heart attacks, 6000 fewer emergency room visits by children with asthma, and 8900 fewer respiratory-related hospital admissions each year in the United States.

Every gallon of oil we recycle from you will prevent 26% of the Carbon Monoxide and 39% of the Particulate Matter associated with a gallon of standard diesel fuel from entering the air around us. It will also offset the Carbon Dioxide by 100%.

Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) is vegetable oil that has become unfit for food preparation.

Currently, most waste oil collection services use the oil they collect as animal feed additive. While this is a reuse of something normally considered a waste product, it isn’t being put to its most productive use and isn’t contributing to the wellbeing of the community.

Contact

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Waste Oil Recyclers

PO Box 257
Modena, Pennsylvania 19358
Phone: (610) 505-0250
Email: info@wasteoilrecyclers.com

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Service Area

Waste Oil Collection

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We have the most economical waste oil collection service in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We provide the storage containers and keep your waste oil collection area impeccably clean. We assure timely pickups and offer several waste oil collection plans to meet your specific needs. Our service is simple and will save you and your employees' time and money. For customers that decrease their oil cook time and keep their oil free of water and debris, Waste Oil Recyclers can offer even greater savings. Check out, our example, Waste Oil Collection Service Agreement!

Timely, Clean, & The Best Value In Southeastern Pennsylvania...FREE!

Waste Oil Resale

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Economic Viability

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We guarantee to have the lowest cost service in Southeastern PA, for waste oil recycling.. We at WOR have extensive backgrounds in the food service industry and know what slim margins the average resturaunt operates within. Every dollar of savings makes a difference. Let us show you how to decrease the time and work required to dispose of your waste oil while saving your business money.

Since Waste Oil Recyclers is environmentally and socially responsible, you can use your cost saving choice as free marketing and advertisement for your business. Customers are increasingly aware of businesses that choose to “Be Green” and act as Community Builders. By choosing WOR you are giving something back to the neighborhoods around you in the form of cleaner air and productive charities. Let your customers know what good work you are doing.

Waste Oil Recyclers attends several community and school events throughout the year. Allow us to highlight your participation and hand out your literature and coupons at our next event.

History of Diesel

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In 1893, German inventor Rudolph Diesel published a paper entitled “The Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Engine,” which described an engine in which air is compressed by a piston to a very high pressure, causing a high temperature. Fuel is then injected and ignited by the compression temperature.

Diesel built his first engine based on that theory the same year and, though it worked only sporadically, he patented it. Within a few years, Diesel's design became the standard of the world for that type of engine and his name was attached to it.

Diesel thought that the United States was the greatest potential market for his engine. The first diesel built in the United States was made in 1898 by Busch-Zulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co. The president of that company was Adolphus Busch, of Budweiser brewing fame, who had purchased North American manufacturing rights.

Diesel's Humanitarian Vision
Diesel originally thought that the diesel engine, (readily adaptable in size and utilizing locally available fuels) would enable independent craftsmen and artisans to endure the powered competition of large industries that ten virtually monopolized the predominant power source-the over sized, expensive, fuel-wasting steam engine. During 1885 Diesel set up his first shop-laboratory in Paris and began his 13-year ordeal of creating his distinctive engine. At Augsburg, on August 10th, 1893, Diesel's prime model, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time. Diesel spent two more years at improvements and on the last day of 1896 demonstrated another model with the spectacular, if theoretical, mechanical efficiency of 75.6 percent, in contrast to the then-prevailing efficiency of the steam engine of 10 percent or less. Although commercial manufacture was delayed another year and even then begun at a snail's pace, by 1898 Diesel was a millionaire from franchise fees in great part international. His engines were used to power pipelines, electric and water plants, automobiles and trucks, and marine craft, and soon after were used in applications including mines, oil fields, factories, and transoceanic shipping.

DuPont, Mellon, and Hearst
Diesel expected that his engine would be powered by vegetable oils (including hemp) and seed oils. At the 1900 World's Fair, Diesel ran his engines on peanut oil. Later, George Schlichten invented a hemp 'decoricating' machine that stood poised to revolutionize paper making. Henry Ford demonstrated that cars can be made of, and run on, hemp. DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw renewable fuels as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. Pollution was important to Diesel and he saw his engine as a solution to the inefficient, highly polluting engines of his time.

A Mystery
Diesel died under mysterious circumstances in 1913, vanishing during an overnight crossing of the English Channel on the mail steamer Dresden from Antwerp to Harwich. Diesel's death might have been suicide, accidental or an assassination. Proponents of the assassination theory point out that shortly after Diesel's death, a diesel-powered German submarine fleet became the scourge of the seas. Diesel had been friendly to France, Britain and the United States.

Politics: Wasting Fuel

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Every gallon of waste oil that gets recycled into fuel, is one less gallon of petroleum diesel that is needed. Every gallon of WVO that is used to generate fuel, is one less gallon that needs to be imported from somewhere else, and is one more gallon that supports America’s farmers.

Biofuels and other oil recycling products increase supply and decrease the cost for everyone, whether they choose to support biofuels or not. Since the raw materials are produced and collected locally, you are assuring a stable local fuel supply, and you are seeing where your dollar is going.

Social Responsibility

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We donate a portion of your processed waste oil to various local charities and community projects for use as heating oil. We currently focus our efforts on women and children’s shelters and half way houses. If there are local charities that you would like to see your donations go to, please contact our sales representative.

Links

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Grease Cars

Fred's Fine Cars

Clean Burn Energy Systems

Organic Mechanic Soil

OMNI Waste Oil Fired Appliances

Solar Living &Wikipedia: Veg. Fuel