Oil's Well That Ends Well
When I checked my Freecycle listserv today, I was reminded of a relatively new holiday cause-and-effect phenomenon: Deep-frying turkeys has become a hip new way to cook a Thanksgiving bird, and biofuel users are eager to get their hands on the spoils of the hunt, as it were. Here's the posting I saw:Did you deep fry a turkey last week? Don't give your used oil to the garbage man or the recycler…let ME recycle it! My commuter car runs on vegetable oil. Just send me your address and put it on the porch and I'll be by to pick it up.
• It's better for you (you get rid of it all at once instead of one gallon at a time curbside)
• It's better for me (commuting 140 miles/day I've got a 100 gallon/month habit)
• It's better for the environment (the oil isn't processed, stored or landfilled…it' s just GONE)
This guy's in the San Francisco Bay Area, but this grubbing for grease is going on all over the place. Craigslist users in Boston, Portland, and Atlanta are looking for it, a television station in South Carolina is letting viewers know about it, and companies in Denver and North Carolina are putting the word out as well.
Me, I'm a briner, so I'm always trying to figure out what to do with five gallons of salty, herbed water that's been home to a raw turkey overnight. Ideas appreciated...
3 Comments:
Frying turkeys... I can see a lot of potential for lipodiesel in a year or two's time.
biofuel briner; For the brine, let it evaporate, reducing what you have to dispose of to a very small amount and putting the water back into the cycle!
Better yet, skip cooking and eating turkey all together. Most turkeys come from factory farms, which pollute our air and water. And huges amounts of soy, corn and grain are fed to livestock and poultry. The entire process of raising and killing turkeys and other farmed animals for food is wasteful and inefficient. Eating a vegetarian diet is an easy way to reduce your greenhouse gas footprint.
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