Tapping the Fried Chicken Wastestream...

OK  this idea maybe pretty useless.
Clearly, bone to fertilizer up-cycling occurs on a large scale, and a house hold scale, but I was looking at it at side hustle scale, which needs more than a meals worth of bones and less than some  reoccurring massive amount.
But the waste from chicken restaurants intrigues me.
I see napkins, and chicken bones and I think fertilizer.
The plastic straws, lids , containers and utensils are the fly in the ointment.
I wish there were a plastic magnet, or at lest a chick-en magnet, but alas.
I have considered the sorting powers of water, chickens and high powered fans, but I really have no good ideas.
Nicer restaurants would have less plastic, but also fewer bones, and better dumpster security.
Anyplace that you had a deal with would reasonably expect regular pick ups.

So there is not much here, in terms of ideas, just a vague wish to convert one waste stream into a phosphorus  rich fertilizer.

One more idea.
Aggressive vermicomposting.
Feed the unsorted mess of waste to superworms or hissing cockroaches.
Eventually, you have insects, insect frass and the indigestible plastic.
At that point, using air to winnow out the good stuf(the poop and the insects)would be more feasible.

It was one of my first targets too :D
I couldn't figure out what to do with so much oil though. There is so much oil. Skins, fry oil etc. Black soldier fly might be an option, maybe?

I've know right!
One thing I've figured out is that anything like that is a possible biochar feedstock.
Bones,  cooked to char, fueled by oil and oulinfused waste.
Might even smell good!
I have made biochar from napkins and bones,  leftovers from BBQ night.
I've never built or used an oil burner,  but I suspect distinct, separated liquid  oil is already being recycled.

One still has to deal with separating out the plastic,  unless you want to try cracking that as well.
I'm wary  of the toxins could come with breaking plastic down into oils and gasses.

Low level heating/pressing/sinstering of plastic seems safe enough,  but also a distraction.

Hi William,

Well you may have also have an insect that could eat the plastic for you, or at least certian types of plastic. If I recall the study results correctly, the wax moth has been studied for its ability to digest certian plastic polymers, appearantly rendering the plastic back into inert organic compounds. It may be worth looking into as a means to help deal with the aboundant refuse, and if the resulting wax moth larvea turn out to be none toxic after testing, theres another feathered foul food source too.

Food for thought at least.

I can verify that wax moths change plastic trash bags (filled with beeswax) into something else. Can't say for sure they actually consume the plastic or how safe it becomes but they sure convert it into a gooey mess within about a month. I strongly suspect that given a little more time it would be completely gone.

I had not heard about the wax moth, only mealy worms like these student studies :
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/teens-use-science-worm-through-plastic-waste