Why this Egyptian start-up wants your used cooking oil
Photo: The Green Pan trio. From left: Mariam Afifi (BDO), Nour El-Assal (CEO) and Ahmed Raafat (COO) / Courtesy of Green Pan, Cairo, Egypt
The humble Egyptian lunch of falafel and batates mehamarra (French fries) is fuelling more than just indigestion. Would you believe that the oil used for the preparation of your food is now being used for engines, boilers and even generators too?
The team behind this is Green Pan, a trio of young minds who came up with the idea of collecting used cooking oil from households and converting it into biodiesel.
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