Yeah, I was thinking on that recently, and a small producer would be in an excellent position to do well in localized rendering, providing it was built into the business plan. It's kinda a self serving feedstock cycle.
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, murdoch wrote: > I think the economics and political philosophy of recycling can not > only be interesting but at times has gotten just plain strange. > Recycling I guess means two things, identification and disposal of > waste (1st) and then (2nd) use of that waste rather than some sort of > sequestration or "throwing away" as a disposal method. I guess folks > have a tough enough time paying for number one, and getting to number > 2 is just that much tougher or something. Maybe we had so much of the > Earth to ourselves for so many millenia that we just are having a > tough time with our more "crowded" state. > > Looking at the history of the effort to recycle paper, it seems to me > there was some strange volatility of recycled-paper prices. That is, > I think I read an article once where they said at some point you did > have a lot of entrants into the relatively nascent market, and there > was enthusiasm, or even over-enthusiasm for this new field that had > met previously with skepticism, and then the bottom kind of fell out > of the recycled paper raw feed market and so the business went back to > being viewed skeptically? Well, that's my recollection. > > Well, I'm sure there are University Professors out there doing all > sorts of interesting and terribly important theses which are pertinent > to the Economics of Recycling, except their ideas will probably become > mainstream decades after they might have done us any good. Heck, it's > taken me years just to get some folks to understand that regenerative > braking arguably amounts to recycling energy of motion, but I guess > that's getting a bit off my point, and a bit away from regular > recycling concepts. > > > >it's free for the taking. Biodieselers are a great way to localise > >the collection of waste oils effectively. > > > >I also saw this, but haven't managed to confirm it: "Every year, U.S. > >businesses throw away enough waste vegetable oil to replace 10% of > >the petroleum products consumed in the country." > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
