What is trap grease?
A. Its the used fatty grease produced by restaurants. There are different types of grease. Yellow grease is the light grease used to make French fries. At room temperature it is a liquid. That grease is clean enough to be collected and reused to make animal feed. Brown grease is the dark fatty grease left over when a restaurant makes your hamburger, etc. At room temperature it is almost a solid. Brown grease is too dirty to be used in animal feed and must be properly disposed of. North American Biofuels specializes in taking brown trap grease and turning it into renewable, beneficial energy. Q. What happens to trap grease now? A. It depends on where you are. Many cities require that trap grease be picked up in special trucks and either burned, buried in landfill, or combined with other materials and injected into the ground. In other towns and cities, trap grease is illegally dumped directly into the sewer system. Q. Why is that bad? A. Burning trap grease produces air pollution. Buryi
