Summit Greasecycling picks up used vegetable oil from restaurants — for free — which the guys then dump into a big tank to filter out any food remnants and impurities. In the winter, they collect roughly 5,000 gallons of oil from 200 restaurants around Summit, Eagle and Gunnison counties. Approximately 95 percent of the stuff they get goes down to Boulder to be converted to biodiesel, while the rest is used to make herbal soap, which they’ve turned into a business of its own: Summit Soap. The guys also produce a de-greaser and more recently, a beard conditioner for men (not made from used vegetable oil, Lor said, but some of the essential oils used to make the soap).
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