Gutter Oil Shanghai
Gutter oil needs to be thrown in the gutter the ubiquitous use of gutter oil in chinese cooking is very real and recent news articles show the public are increasingly concerned.
Gutter oil shanghai. The problem of gutter oil has long plagued china. Regulation to stop production of gutter oil china daily asia news network shanghai shanghai s new regulation to prevent the use and collection of restaurants waste oil takes effect on friday. Sinopec the company selling the fuel expects the fuel to be on sale in at least 200 gas stations by the end of the year meaning that the city s annual target 30 000 tons of biodiesel made from gutter oil known as bd100 will be met. Although illegal some unscrupulous people still filter waste oil from restaurant fryers sewer drains grease traps and other sources then sell.
Gutter oil so called because it is sometimes dumped in gutters and drains is expired cooking oil. The fuel is made with 5 oil that has been discarded after cooking or found in sewer pipes and 95 petroleum diesel. In china gutter oil has been used to create products like soap rubber bio fuel plastics rooftops and cosmetics. Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese foo.
The consequence though is putting the public s health at great risk. China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil. Wang chengkui was sentenced to life imprisonment by a jiangsu province court on wednesday for profiting from the sale and production of gutter oil xinhua reports. The fuel can cut the emissions of heavy metals and fine particles by 10.
While b5 biodiesel is becoming a priority in china the government is also trying to introduce other alternative fuels like e10 a blend of 10 ethanol with gasoline. The government has long been fighting with the manufacturers of this deadly substance but so far the problem has been persistent. In the market gutter oil is being sold for merely 940 a ton compared with commercial grade oil which sells 1 500 that s savings around 560.