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Restaurant head chef talks about drainage oil in China

March 18th, 2010 by Key | Posted in News | 5 Comments »

From Sina:

I am not going to say which city, which restaurant, I don’t want to lose my job. But I want to talk about the current situation of the drainage oil (地沟油). I am working at this sizable restaurant as the head chef, so I know some information about this.

Our restaurant’s waste oil is usually produced in two ways: the used oil after frying many foods and the waste oil from the water after washing dishes and pots.

Used oil is stored in bins, people will pay to collect them, not stored waste oil is dumped into the sewers, and this waste oil is also fished out later. There is a big hotel near my home. Many times at night I saw minivan carrying many barrels, people in the car open up the manhole covers and connect to the hotel kitchen, using a long spoon to pick up the oil floating on the water surface.

To be frank, big restaurants and big hotels are the main places producing drainage oil.

In the city I am in, people already clearly scooped out the big restaurants and hotels’ sewage pathways. Now it was already exposed on CCTV, the relevant departments have been keeping a tight grip, so the cases of fishing sewer waste oil are fewer now, however purchasing used oil is still very common.

Used oil and the floating oil fished up from the sewers are now all called drainage oil. Drainage oil must not be consumed by people. It can only be used as raw materials for producing chemical products. However there is profit in this, the trend is an above average restaurant can produce 100 kg of used oil in a month, each kg sells for over 1 yuan, so the profit is 200-300 yuan a month. Not only this, the people come to fish from the sewers also pay the restaurant; they pay 200-300 a month.

Do not underestimate the sewers, every time they can pick up 10- 20 kg! Therefore, people are in competition for fishing the waste oil. These people must pay the restaurants and hotels money each month. After a deal is formed, hotel security guards only permit these people to fish out waste oil and deny all others. If someone pays a higher price then they will be permitted instead.

In the city where I live, say a medium-sized restaurant produces 100kg a month plus the dumped waste oil being fished out the total drainage oil produced in a month should be around 4,000 kg. Where does it flow to after the drainage oil is collected?

Of course the dinner table!

Now the people who collect drainage oil are not only those workshops that specialize in drainage oil processing, but also including some fast food restaurants. Because drainage oil processing is simple: put it in a huge pot and heat it up, then add some chemicals, the residues and impurities in the waste oil are separated and sink to the bottom of the pot. The upper layer clear oil looks no different than the normal oil if just looking at it. The price for this oil is only 3 yuan per kg, and the normal edible oil costs 9 yuan per kg.

The drainage oil is usually used by fast food restaurants, food stalls, street food stands and including some companies’ in-house cafeterias. Because the cheap price, and it looks clear enough, drainage oil becomes the choice of the evil owners. Actually small food shops’ oil consumption is not small, especially the boiled fish and hotpot etc. using drainage oil saves a lot of money.

However that is not all, medium sized restaurant needs 400kg oil a month, purchasing it from the supermarket can be very costly, so they usually order in bulks to be delivered to them.

There is always loopholes, when each new restaurant opens, there will be grain and oil distributors contacting them. In the end which distributor gets the contract all depends on the price, just like any competition. As for the quality of the oil usually is only determined by human eyes. But the oil delivered in the big white bin does not have any information about the manufacturer, production date and expatriation date. The chefs here do not even know where the oil we use is produced. Say, if the distributor mixes in fake drainage oil, there is really nothing we can do.

We are most afraid of using drainage oil, because if oil producer mixes in water, it would sizzle and making loud noises when heat up. It is easy to determine that, but drainage oil is undetectable.

However the hotels and restaurants have their difficulties too. The profit for selling waste oil each month is not so great; of course profit is still the reason. Also, there are also legitimate factories here specializing in processing waste oil for producing chemical raw materials. These factories come to collect waste oil, not only refuse to pay the restaurant; instead restaurant must pay the factories a fee. Obviously we give something away to them, but still have to pay them? Restaurant manager feels that this is unreasonable. But waste oil must be dealt with, so when people come to pay for them, of course the restaurant is willing. In fact if the legitimate factory comes to collect the waste oil and we don’t have to pay, we would have been willing too.

Among the variety of kitchen supplies oil is the most chaotic and the hardest to regulate. The masses regard food as their heaven, the safety of edible oil is already affecting food industry’s credibility. Everyone should have the mind set of using safe oil, absolutely opposing the evil oil. At the same time issues of recycling waste oil should be addressed so that the evil oil market will decline on its own.

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“物业税不合适，”64岁的宗先生在一次访谈中说：“现在每个人都要付月度的物业管理费，物业税只会增加另一个负担。”宗是杭州娃哈哈饮料公司的董事长。


高纬物业咨询（Cushman & Wakefield）说，中国去年超过美国成为全球最大的房地产投资市场。该公司是一家总部在纽约的房地产代理机构。


46岁的潘石屹在香港表示：“有权实施物业税的人正是那些拥有物业的人”，因此物业税“几乎不可能”成为法律。潘是北京地产商soho中国的主席，他和他的妻子在福布斯富豪榜上排名第24位。







贾认为政府应当“为物业税的引入积极调查和准备”，开始可能是进行试点。

新的收入来源有助于遏制房地产投机。投机已经令住房短缺，有产生泡沫的威胁，这制约了中国经济，尽管它在第四季度增长了10.7％。

龙州资讯（Dragonomics）董事总经理葛艺豪（Arthur Kroeber）表示：“大家都认为，当前增长结构中房地产占据大部分来源，是不可持续的。”龙州资讯是一家经济咨询公司，客户包括对冲基金和财富500强公司。


并不是所有中国的最富裕的人都反对物业税。54岁的王超斌是河南省的房地产开发商，他认为物业税可以让政府减免其他费用，但他补充说基本的住房不应当包括在物业税之内。

王超斌在2009年福布斯富豪榜上排名第251位，身家4.4亿美元，对物业税相当了解。他在纽约长岛（Syosset）拥有一套房子，去年的评估值是157万美元。根据长岛县（Nassau County）的记录，王支付了2.6万美元的地方税。华盛顿税收基金会的数据显示，长岛县的税负2008年在全美排名第二。



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报告：谷歌，中国决定在星期一

    近日，南京某高校副教授马尧海因参与换偶活动将被起诉，如果被判犯有聚众淫乱罪，他很可能将被收监服刑。此前，他所在的大学已经将他停职并停发工资。

    我原来以为这二十多年已经没有再依据聚众淫乱罪判刑的案例，看来我对中国的进步太乐观了。如果这个案件真的判了罪，中国的人权状况将大大退步。

    聚众淫乱法是一个违宪的法律，它与宪法的矛盾表现为宪法尊重和保障人权，而聚众淫乱法侵害公民的基本权利。依据这个法律的判例是破坏人权而不是保护人权。

    中华人民共和国宪法第三十三条规定：“凡具有中华人民共和国国籍的人都是中华人民共和国公民。国家尊重和保障人权。”公民在隐私的场所自愿施行性活动的权利应当受到宪法保护。正如宪法中并无“中国人民共和国公民有吃饭的权利”字样一样，宪法中也没有“中华人民共和国公民有性权利”的字样，因为这两项权利是受宪法保护的公民基本人权。同理，正如我们无法用刑法禁止人们吃饭一样，我们也无法用刑法禁止人们在隐私场所自愿参与性活动。此外，值得提醒人们注意的是，正如吃饭从根本上并不是对人有害的事情一样，性活动从根本上也并不是对人有害的。

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