Chinas Illegal Gutter Oil Trade Could Be Used To Power

China s illegal gutter oil trade could be used to power flights.

Chinas illegal gutter oil trade could be used to power.

The sources of this oil are restaurant fryers sewers and leftover or used oil that is sold by restaurants. It can also be used to describe the processing of waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers grease traps slaughterhouse waste and. Which has already been ramping up wind. The name is now used for any cooking oil.

Biofuel has been used to power airplanes and buses in china. Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese foo. Powered by a 50 50 blend of used cooking oil and normal jet fuel. Sōushuǐ yóu is a general term for oil that has been recycled it can be used to describe the practice of restaurants re using cooking oil that has already been fried before.

Gutter oil as it is known is well named says the bbc s michael bristow in beijing with some of it collected by dredging the drains behind restaurants. Dìgōu yóu or 餿水油. The so called gutter oil or namely recycled cooking oil is currently a food safety topic of wide public concern lu wu 2014. Chinese call it gutter oil a foul slop fished up from sewage drains or collected at restaurant back doors and it s being used widely in the country s eateries.

Gutter oil is a term used in china to describe illicit cooking oil that has already been used and is then processed by cleaning and filtering to be resold as a cheaper alternative to normal cooking oil. China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil. Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese food so some street vendors and hole in. It is a term to describe illicit cooking oil which has.

Using cooking oil derived biofuel cuts carbon dioxide emissions and is a productive way to clamp down on the illegal gutter oil trade.