From French Fries to ‘Yellow Gold’
Next time you dip some nice hot greasy fries into some ketchup, think about this: the grease that makes your fries so tasty can be used to make bio-diesel. “Yellow Gold” they call it!
Until recently only small groups of people in the grease refining industry referred to it as yellow gold. Now that the price of oil has skyrocketed, and the demand for biodiesel with it, more and more dumpster divers are seeing a profit in stealing grease. During the past 2 years the price of yellow grease (an actual traded commodity) has nearly tripled. Refineries are falling over themselves buying up tons of the nasty stuff.
Grease Bandits!
Not only has the price increased, but ‘theft’ of grease is rising sharply as well. Grease bandits are popping up all over the south and making it life difficult for companies contracted to remove the awful stuff.
We know that replacing oil is going to have diverse effects on society, but we never imagined this!
Tags: biodiesel, grease, grease bandits, yellow grease
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