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Q: Does your local gutter oil dude operate in the open?
We have a local restaurant, it is pretty nice, food is great, they have high staff retention and obviously a guy with a dirty mind in charge of staffing. Decoration is lovely, noise level bearable, no-smoking most often enforced. Close to a perfect restaurant.
For lunch, it will be full, and for dinner you need to book a table.
Between 9 and 11 AM (the guy is not accurate, and I don't check it daily) there is a dirty old truck parked outside. Inside the cargo hold is a lot of big plastic barrels. And inside those barrels is oil. This guy is getting leftover oil from the nice restaurant, and a couple of other places right by it. He openly transports this around. I'd think the nice restaurant probably doesn't use his "product" but you never know. Anyway, why come a nice clean place would want some greasy dude messing about on the sidewalk in front of their premises.
Do you ever see this kind of thing in broad daylight. ?
They come to the restaurant in my building every evening, the same way you describe it.
Restaurants will always have waste oil they need to get rid of, and that's ok, but I really hope it's not being recycled as cooking oil. I know it happens but hopefully not as much as it used to.
Could be it's being sold as pig food, or turned into ... well something else. Or maybe it's just a service where people collect it for a fee and dispose of it for the restaurant. Dump it in a river or landfill or something.
The evening/night trucks at restaurants with barrels, it can be for left-over food, which used to feed pigs. I saw such trucks everywhere in the country. Oil, I would need to really look into the barrels. Fun fact : Diesel engines can run (and were originally designed for that) on (clean) organic oil. That would be a better usage of that oil ^^
Because doing a proper job at plumbing and insulation is way over people's head apparently, you can smell the discarded barrel storage place meters away. Usually with a crater-looking black & soil around, yuck.
I actually LOLd when I saw this topic.
In answer to your question, one that I see sometimes is shameless. The local guy near me was collecting a few nights ago when a motorbike with 3 guys on it ran up his arse. Gutter oil everywhere. Fortunately no one was hurt apart from being covered in gutter oil.
Even in the west, waste oil gets collected and recycled (as industrial lubricants and non-consumable byproducts).
It would be wise for the Chinese gov't to institute a law that waste cooking oil must be dyed prior to discarding in order to make any attempt at recycling for human consumption impossible.
RiriRiri:
The use of gutter oil by restaurant is punishable by the capital sentence. I'm not kidding, this is a law they past last year.
