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BIODIESEL MAKER ROB DEL BUENO: "I got hose." (Photo by Joeff Davis)

Biodiesel maker Rob Del Bueno is now accepting used residential fryer oil.

Atlanta’s Sultan of Safflower recently started collecting waste cooking oil in a bin at Refuel Biodiesel’s 250 Arizona Ave filling station, just south of Dekalb Ave in Edgewood.

Even if you don’t give a hoot about biodiesel, you should still consider dumping your waste cooking oil in the bin.

Cooking oil clogs household drain pipes and municipal sewers.

Del Bueno’s press release is after the jump.

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Watch Atlanta alt-fuel hero Rob del Bueno deliver a hypnotic sales pitch to CNN on the merits of biodiesel, the production of which he oversees for Refuel Biodiesel.

I swear, del Bueno could sell water to a well. Good thing the product he’s touting — non-petroleum fuel made from recycled cooking oil that’s siphoned from local restaurants — helps reduce our carbon footprint and our reliance on foreign oil. Oh, and it’s WAY cheaper than regular diesel .

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In case you missed it, the L.A. Times published a lengthy profile last week on Rob Del Bueno, Atlanta’s only indie-rocker-turned-biodiesel-purveyor.

The story focuses in part on how Del Bueno’s past experience as a member of the “sci-fi surf rock band” Man or Astro-man? plays into his biodiesel ambitions:

The emerging world of boutique biodiesel can seem oddly familiar to a veteran of the indie rock scene. There is the fight-the-big-guys storyline, the sense of mission, the fetishization of locally made product.

Of course, I’m partial to CL’s 2003 cover story about Del Bueno. But the Times does a good job of updating the story. Del Bueno’s made a good bit of headway over the past few years in his mission to bring biodiesel to the mainstream.

For info on how and where to purchase Del Bueno’s biodiesel, which can be used in any diesel vehicle without modification, visit the site of his nonprofit Refuel Biodiesel.

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