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You see all sorts of Orange oil products today in cleaning agents and furniture polishes. Orange oil also burns nicely, making it an ideal substance to burn in a lantern. Yet every time you eat an orange, you peel it, eat it, and throw away the rinds.
What if every home had a device for using the
rinds? An oil extractor? It would shred up the rinds, and squeeze the oil out of them. You wouldn't get much out of each orange, but if you ate a lot of oranges you might be able to collect a significant portion of orange oil. You could burn it in a small lantern, use it as an air freshener, make household cleaning products, or sell it to a company and make a profit. (Citrus Petroleum, anyone?) Also, the shredded rinds could be used in recipes needing them.
I wonder if you could power a car on orange oil...
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You could power a "lemon" with lemon oil. |
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Prioritize the dumping of citrus peels to the bottom of a waste landfill, and after sufficient time, heat, and pressure just mine the oily carbonaceous strata and bottle up any ooze that can be pumped away. “Place your citrus peels, seeds, and pulp as well as citrus tree leaves and cuttings into the orange recycling container at curbside” |
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