The problem of creating a reasonable regulatory regime and packaged units for dealing with fat to fuel is probably worth solving. The best way to reduce a waste stream is to make sure stuff never gets into it. This would probably look like a cheap and environmentally sound way to dispose of the specific class of human tissue called fat.

I can imagine a specialized storage unit and a recycling service regularly emptying it which would resemble the system that has evolved for recycling – processing restaurant grease / used cooking oils.

Building an automated on-premises human fat to biodiesel plant would be a much more expensive problem, it’s easier to scale something like that up than down.

Looked at correctly, this is something that can be turned into a Kickstarter proposal for funding at the study level, not a humor article making an ironic point about resources people don’t think of as resources.

tim_bastable: got a patent application number that can be looked up? I don’t do facebook.