CHINA ‘GUTTER OIL’ SCANDALS A BOON TO BIOFUELS; BUT COLLECTION REMAINS DIFFICULT
April 1st, 2012
BY MARK GODFREY, IN BEIJING
DINERS in Beijing were appalled recently to discover that restaurants on the city's most famed dining street have been using recycled - or so called 'gutter' - cooking oil processed by an underground industry of oil collectors. Back in February, local news outlets claimed that dining hotspot Guijie Street restaurateurs were subjecting clientele to possible toxins known to be produced when reheating animal and vegetable fat. More outrage ensued when photos appeared in the local media in March of a Dickensian gutter oil processing ...
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