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A Greasy Problem: What’s the Proper Way to Discard Used Cooking Oil
Cooking oil helps create mouthwatering dishes, despite its widely known health risk. With clean cooking oil, you can produce delicious food accentuate the textures of ingredients, and complementary flavors that the public loves. But that used cooking oil can cause...
Recycling Vegetable Oil a Small Step to Help Save the Planet
Unfortunately, many people do activities that negatively impact the environment. In many situations, they do not know they’re hurting the earth already. Some of these activities are common habits such as: Wasting of paper Using plastic bags Leaving the lights on Not...
The (Yellow) Grease is Greener: The Hidden Treasure Behind Grease Collection
Industrialization, mass production, and the population boom were all signs of progress. While the country rose and developed into something its national ethos idealized, the signs of progress also led to surplus and surplus of mass-produced foods, with the food...
How Food Manufacturers Can Join the Sustainability Movement
If there’s one industry that finds it extra difficult to go green fully, it’s food manufacturers. Now, it’s the nature of food manufacturers to be highly dependent on traditional (non-renewable) sources of energy. Everything, from cooking to preserving food to keeping...
The Rewards of Environmental Advocacy in Business
Consumers around the world are feeling the effects of climate change, from rising temperatures to more volatile weather phenomena. With the growing awareness that the things they frequently bought and discarded in the past contributed to the present problem, many now...
Fatbergs 101: What Happens When You Don’t Recycle Yellow Grease?
Yellow grease, also known as used cooking oil, is present in almost every food processing plant out there. When reused and disposed of improperly, this unwanted oil can come back to haunt the environment and the livelihood of those living on the planet. Defining a...
From Choosing to Disposing Oil: The Deep Fryer Oil Discussion You Want to Hear
No matter what kind of fried food fare you want to produce - vegan corndogs, french fries, or mozzarella sticks, etc. - the output of these items is the same: gallons of used cooking oil. Before we talk of what to do with this seemingly unusable oil, let's discuss the...
Recycling Vegetable Oil and Animal Fat After Food Production
Whether you are creating heat and serve meals that are sold in grocery stores or vegan meat substitutes for restaurants and consumers to grill up, your biggest question will be the same: what do you do with all of those residual substances leftover after your product...
The Science of Used Vegetable Oil Recycling: An Overview
Have you ever wondered where other large food processing plants dispose of their unwanted by-products after production is complete? If you are in the industry, chances are you definitely have. While many of these products end up in landfills, what exactly happens to...
Fat To Fuel: Repurposing Animal Fat to Renewable Energy
The world's population is increasing and the people already on it are demanding ever higher standards of living. These two forces will have a significant effect on the environment. In 2018, the worldwide demand for energy rose 2.3% which, according to the...