Marston's launches green cooking oil scheme
Marston's Pub Company has teamed up with Prosper De Mulder Limited (PDM) to offer its retailers a new national waste cooking oil collection service.
PDM collects retailers' waste oil to produce biodiesel to generate green electricity in its own stations.
Pubs are supplied with two free containers to pour away their used cooking oil into.
When the first one is full, they simply call PDM's 24/7 call centre to book a collection and their driver will collect the oil and drop off replacement sterile containers.
Alternatively, pubs can have a scheduled collection - all free of charge.
"It's a great scheme - it's good for the planet, it's saved us money on our cooking oil and has got rid of the empty cartons which used to get piled up outside," said Richard Lloyd, licensee of The Rose Cottage in Newark.
Karl Czinege, Commercial Manager at Marston's Pub Company, added: "The days of being able to hand used oil from out the back of a restaurant to a 'man in a white van' are now a thing of the past.
"Marston's and our retailers are showing the way forward on growing sales by aligning our operating policies with what both our consumers and the environment demand."
