Originally Posted by Dan Fortesque:
“You don't think there are alternatives in this day and age?”
“You don't think there are alternatives in this day and age?”
It is a byproduct that would otherwise go to waste, meaning we would have to manufacture a synthetic tallow for all the plastics, latex etc which would be worse for the environment as it would generate more CO2 and use more energy than using the byproduct already available.
The amounts used in the new £5 are so tiny that to put it into perspective half a cow's worth of tallow was required for all the £5 notes in circulation.



