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Subject: [OM] Re: [ot] alternative fuels
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:35:23 -0700
> From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Somewhat interested in this one - here each week a truck pulls up
> behind fast food joints and empties a pre-heated waste oil and fat
> bin - the purveyor of greasy lumps of carbohydrate gets a free bin
> and paid for the contents.

Don't know 'bout Stralia, but that's not how it work here.

Restaurants typically pay $30-$60 per month to have their grease  
hauled away. "Yellow grease," as it is called in the trade, is traded  
on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and is worth about $0.50-$0.60  
per gallon. So the waste companies have two revenue streams, and the  
restaurants are generally happy to have someone agree to haul it for  
free.

I have heard that in Stralia that mutton tallow is a popular  
biodiesel feedstock.

:::: Jan Steinman, Communication Steward, EcoReality: http:// 
www.EcoReality.org ::::
:::: 160 Sharp Road, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2P6, Canada,  
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