Posted on 04/20/2019 6:42:40 AM PDT by Libloather
Seems that in an age when we have put men on the moon and built the internet some genius could find a way to lock the tank filler and the draw valve.
“Thieves just recycling the old, used cooking grease Americans won’t recycle.”
That’s the point of the article. There is a company who IS recycling it into biofuel and other food-related things. And people pay for it. Someone is taking money from another.
Think nothing of it - I get up ar 3 AM and post before going to work and such a thing has happened to me many times ...
Great idea but like breaking and entering no matter how many locks you put on the door there is always someone with a Port A Power that will just come through the wall. Or in this case punch a hole in the tank and have at it.
I found that out later.
Had no idea it was a market.
Second, if a thief comes onto your private property and takes what you own it's stealing. Used grease is not placed in a 'dumpster' it is either held in a in ground storage tank or in barrels locked in enclosures called a grease safe. Either way a 'thief' trespasses on private property and breaks into a locked receptacle to take what does not belong to them. That's how it is stealing.
I guess you would be OK with someone going onto your property at night and taking some of your property that they figured was trash.
We live in a condo and each courtyard has a trash bin. There are people that go through the bins looking for things they can sell or recycle. I don’t have a problem with that.
The way the headline was written made it sound like it was “in the trash”, rather than in a storage container to be sold.
Thank you for the explanation, the word “polymer “ just didn’t sound right to me, when we’re talking about fat.
It’s also garbage that has made most of the older kerosene heaters in the US obsolete, and I’ve personally seen it disrupt a cold-weather lumber operation.
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