Gutter oil has, for a time, become the focal point of discussion among people on the streets. So what exactly is gutter oil? How can we identify gutter oil? What are the differences between gutter oil and genuine oil? Moreover, how great is its harm to human health? Is the current level of supervision satisfactory? Are there any foolproof methods to completely eradicate it? With these questions in mind, reporters recently interviewed Mr. He Dongping, who also serves as the head of the Oilseed and Oil Working Group of the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Standardization Committee.
Huge profits drive the thriving trade of gutter oil. According to investigations, enormous profits are an important factor leading to the "unceasing" trade of gutter oil. For restaurants, if they hand over their kitchen waste to sanitation departments for processing, they would have to pay certain fees. However, if they sell it to private individuals, they could instead gain benefits ranging from thousands to even tens of thousands per year.
In response to this, the reporter conducted an investigation. At a restaurant near Wuchang's Fruit Lake, the boss claimed that there were at least 50 tables of guests daily, generating roughly two large buckets of kitchen waste, which were then uniformly transported and processed by sanitation workers every day. Subsequently, the reporter contacted the Wuhan urban management department, where relevant officials stated that the sanitation workers had never transported kitchen waste from this particular restaurant.
It seems that there are not a few restaurants unwilling to voluntarily "submit" their kitchen waste. As an insider, Wuhan Airei, a company that extracts biodiesel from kitchen waste oil%E