Most families in Singapore improperly dispose of used cooking oil by dumping it down sinks or toilets, totaling thousands of kilograms daily. The document then discusses converting used cooking oil into biodiesel, an environmentally friendly fuel that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. It outlines the simple materials, equipment and steps needed to purify and neutralize the oil through a basic chemical process to produce biodiesel, including filtering, heating, adding sodium hydroxide and alcohol, then distilling off the excess alcohol to produce biodiesel.