From a restaurant's deep-fryer to the gravel roads of West Marlborough: the township is experimenting this summer with using recycled cooking oil to keep down dust on its unpaved roads.
At the township supervisors' monthly meeting on Aug. 5, supervisor Hugh Lofting reported that the road crew obtained a drum of recycled oil from Waste Oil Recyclers in Modena and spread it using watering cans on a stretch of unpaved Ryan Road as a test. He said so far they've been "very pleased" with its effectiveness, and apparently the recycled cooking oil is less expensive than the soybean oil the township had been using.
"It sounds like a win-win for us," commented supervisor Bill Wylie.
I drove over the test patches just after the oil was applied and stuck my head out the car window like an excited dog to see if I could get a whiff of French fries or fried chicken. Not a bit.
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