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‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by Egbagirl(f): 3:40pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
"Gutter oil" industry takes street slop and animal scraps and renders it into black-market cooking oil. Considering the rampant amount of food waste that occurs in America, the move toward thriftiness in regards to utilizing scraps and leftovers is a promising development. For restaurants (and home cooks) who work with whole animals, from chickens to 300 pound hogs, rendering the fat from scraps of meat is one delicious way to make sure as much of the animal can be utilized as possible. In China, however, that mentality has been taken to disgusting, dangerous ends in what’s known at the Gutter Oil Industry. In a video posted on AlterNet, produced by Radio Free Asia, a woman is shown pulling slop out of the sewer, scooping up globs of crud into a bucket. “Her slop eventually winds up in a processing plant like this one,” says the narrator, the screen showing a bubbling vat, “where its combined with other animal fat refuse to create recycled cooking oil.” Remember London’s “fatberg”? Gutter oil is basically a rendered, refined cooking oil based on similar such waste. Unsurprisingly, the cheap cooking oil has been found to contain carcinogens and other toxins. But in China, oil, a requisite for wok-cooking, is in high demand, and the cheap price of gutter oil draws customers despite the grease’s source. The video says that an estimated 1/10 of oil sold in China is gutter oil. And that sizable market means this form of recycling is big (albeit illegal) business. As AlterNet’s Rod Bastanmehr notes, the government recently moved to shutdown black market production in 13 cities. “The shutdown occurred after a five-month investigation yielded a reported 3,200 tons of gutter oil,” Bastanmehr writes, “which authorities estimated had been sold to a staggering $1.6 million profit.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zrv78nG9R04 1 Like |
Re: ‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by Egbagirl(f): 3:40pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zrv78nG9R04 Honestly this is beyond gross!!! I don't even know what to say. I know we are trying to create a sustainable environment but this one is aseju big time! |
Re: ‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by wasak(m): 3:53pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
if that were the meaning of development.. I don't want my dear Nigeria to be developed!!! |
Re: ‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by Egbagirl(f): 3:55pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
wasak: if that were the meaning of development.. I don't want my dear Nigeria to be developed!!!hahahahaha this one isnt development o. Far from it. |
Re: ‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by Nobody: 4:01pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
Lobatan! They will start making magarine out of it now. This is pure madness, why don't they just take the damn thing and eat it rather than refining it. Chinese poo |
Re: ‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by Annie2gud(f): 4:21pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
Chinko ish.no wonder,dia Eyes no dey open fully. |
Re: ‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by AbuMikey(m): 4:30pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
**spits** Quietly unfollows thread! |
Re: ‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by Acidosis(m): 5:02pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
Oya Nigerian Vegetarians, over to you Abegi, 5 don reach, make I go make my oyel stew & egusi |
Re: ‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by Egbagirl(f): 7:26pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
aanumama: Lobatan! They will start making magarine out of it now. Eeeeew. Don't say that. That's like spreading shit on bread. *pukes* |
Re: ‘sustainability’ Gone Awry: China Turns Sewer Waste Into Cooking Oil by Egbagirl(f): 7:27pm On Nov 02, 2013 |
Acidosis: Oya Nigerian Vegetarians, over to you Hahaha wetin consign vegetarian and this one. My only hope be say we no dey import oil from china to naija. Otherwise.... |
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