Gutter Oil

You'd think that since cooking oil is so widely available and can be obtained from so many places in the modern world, making or obtaining it wouldn't be that challenging. After all, there are numerous sources for it. The evil of gutter oil is all too real despite that nevertheless.

Gutter oil is oil that originates from all possible places where oil should never originate. Grease traps, slaughterhouses, and sewers are all commonplace. You're aware of how oil will frequently float to the top of other liquids? Gutter oil is simply skimmed off and processed again by harvesters. Although illegal, it nevertheless occurs.

2013 saw the release of videos documenting the production, which showed harvesters simply opening manholes on public streets in broad daylight and bringing up ladles full of slime to prepare and resell to small eateries or street sellers. However, the issue was so pervasive that 10% of all cooking oil was thought to be garbage oil.