7 Shady, Stupid Black Markets You Didn’t Know Existed

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Used Cooking Oil Burglary Is The Modern-Day Train Robbery

Nasty, used grease is big business. Turns out you were flushing cash down the drain all this time. 

Establishments sell the muck from their fryers instead of dumping it. The practice saves the environment and nets a few bucks, leftover material transformed into fuel, feed for animals, and tallow used in fancy cosmetics. It’s little wonder industry experts advise you to lock up your grease vats like Fort Knox, this stuff the secret ingredient in over-priced make-up.

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Thieves have taken to brazen raids to retrieve the slimy gold. Yup, that odd, old Simpsons plot was legit. Because your local McDonald’s is too busy refilling the ketchup dispenser or fishing a Happy Meal toy out of a toilet to bother installing a burglar alarm for the fryer, thieves know they can do a quick and messy job siphoning all they can carry, speeding away like Wild West outlaws, endangering lives as they endanger the environment. 

The National Renderers Association puts the total tally for pilfered grease at 75 million bucks per year in the US, grease pillaging a more reliable bet than hoarding gold or trading cryptocurrencies. 

And to all you folks working dead-end, fast food jobs, don’t get any clever ideas.