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Multiple Indicted on Charges of Theft and Re-Sale of Restaurant Cooking Oil

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by maxglute

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Used cooking oil / UCO has been liquid gold for carbon credit maxing as feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel. Sells more per unit than cooking oil, so much so there's fraud going around mixing UCO into fresh cooking oil for resale. There's tariff shenanigans over PRC UCO exports, so now US UCO = $$$.
The broader TLRD is there's no market for gutter oil for cooking anymore when UCO sell more to industrial recyclers. Gutter oil for cooking in PRC, TW disapeared once waste cooking oil recycling industries sprung up. I think SKR avoided it all together by building biodesel management earlier.

by alecco

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by Stevvo

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At least they are using it for Biodiesel. This happens daily in China, hundreds of thousands of people collect used oil from drains/sewers and sell it to a refinery. However, the refinery doesn't turn it into bio-diesel; they clean it up and resell it as new cooking oil.

by mjhay

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Used oil and grease theft is fairly valuable to use for biodiesel. Theft has actually been a problem for a while.

by monerozcash

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I put all the available court filings from PACER on RECAP https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72028072/united-states-...

by pphysch

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Oh no, not the Used Cooking Oil. Thank you DoJ for keeping our streets safe.
Seriously though, what's the usual lifecycle for those waste oil tanks? Will the owner sell the contents to a recycler when it's full?

by OutOfHere

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I don't know why restaurants need to use oil in this waste-generating way, presumably for frying. All of the same things can be cooked in an air fryer oven without oil. Granted, it takes longer, and uses plenty of electricity, but it can be done all day long.