i just throw mine in the dumpster now. haven't had anyone pay for it for 10 years drop the fat into a box instead of the trash can. that will keep the bag from getting too heavy. the was chicken boxes work best
-- Edited by fdarn on Thursday 26th of January 2012 07:23:28 PM
So my owner asked to see if I could find a rendering company that doesn't charge to pick up our shop fat, I don't think that anyone pays for or picks up for free anymore. what do you do with your shop fat?
We work with a local composter. He has a large composting operation and picks our fat up for free. He then uses it in his produce production or sells the compost to local farmers to use for their produce. It's a win-win for everyone. I live in a pretty progressive area but you could check that out.
fdarn, thats what we did at my last store and it worked fine, but my owner thinks it will smell too bad in the summer, but I can't see how it can be any worse than rotten produce in the compactor.
They use to pay for pick ups, now they charge With extra trim beef-they aren't shipping millions of pounds of fat around the country anymore- most rendering companies are charging for pick-ups
for what fat you do generate- if you make bird-balls, you hardly have any waste
When CWD was first discovered in Wisconsin the rendering companies would not pick up any deer bones. After checking around our refuse company said as long as the bones were not from the eradication zone where the disease had been found, we could use our dumpster. We started using garbage bags for our shop inedibles and just throwing them in the dumpster also. Works great in the winter months since its so cold it freezes overninght. Summer months we bag it as usual, then place it in a beef box then into the freezer, properly marked of course, then the night before the dumpster is emptied it all goes into the dumpster. Smell in the summer is no issue since its frozen. We have our dumpster picked up twice weekly.
__________________
I'm not a vegetarian, but have eaten many animals that were.
Wow. I just checked out this thread, because from the subject I was wondering what the heck y'all were talking about. I left the business in 1995 and had no idea that renderers no longer purchased fat and bone!
What brought this about? Even with boxed beef my weekly pick up was about 1000 to 1200 lbs fat and 200-300 bone back then. I think we got about 25 cents/lb back for it then.
I'll tell you what I think happened. The pick up companies realized that they were performing a service for us not the other way around. We all know how heavy those barrells get and what else are we going to do with it if they don't take it? They figured out that even though they need the fat we needed them to pick it up more. that and gas prices is what i would say caused the change.
Well it seems like most of you guys are now dumping it in the garbage. Renderers need the product as it is used for cosmetics, fire suppression foam, hair conditioner, etc. I wonder if that will swing the market back??
