Turning used cooking oil into soap in a country where deep-fried foods rule2 days ago Share Save Fritz Pinnow Reporter, Comayagua, Honduras Share SaveFritz Pinnow Hugo Daniel Chávez is proud of the soap his team makes from recycled cooking oilFew 27-year-olds look at used cooking oil and see a green business opportunity to produce soap or dog food. Across Latin America, several million tonnes of cooking oil are consumed every year. Fritz Pinnow Sustenta picks up the used cooking oil from stores like this one in ComayaguaSustenta offers between 2.50 and 3.50 Lempiras (£0.08 and £0.11) per pound of used cooking oil. (...) Otherwise, we could quickly run out of used cooking oil, because of the black market that is competing with us," adds Mr Chávez. Fritz Pinnow Sustenta encourages businesses to dispose of their cooking oil or - in this case - beef tallow correctlyIt then brings the cooking oil and grease to a plant in Comayagua, where they are purified and processed in a reaction known as saponification.