0 fat from animals, used for making soap and, especially in the past, candles
The barrel, after it was dry and the bore cleaned out, was treated on the exterior with beef tallow to keep it from splitting.
This is the little feeble tallow candle lighted in a corner to illumine the vast expanse of our civilisation.
The beef industry is suffering from a deficit of about £58 million due to the lack of a market for tallow, meat and bonemeal.
They were working on piece-work, the simplest work, loading cement in bags and tallow in casks—unskilled men.
Nevertheless, there is now a substantial amount of bonemeal and tallow—more than 100,000 tonnes of tallow—to be disposed of.
Rendering followed by incineration of the resultant meat and bonemeal and tallow costs around £315 per tonne.
Over 53,000 tonnes of tallow have been sold to renderers to burn as a fuel to power the rendering process.
That material went to the renderer's plant to be disposed of as bonemeal or tallow.
