What is it?
If you have noticed the nasty smell that blows through Anatolia with some regularity, you are not alone! That smell belongs to our local rendering plant owned and operated by Sacramento Rendering Companies. The plant is located just off of Sunrise Blvd. at Kiefer Blvd., less than 2 miles from the Anatolia master planned community [click here for map].
What is a “Rendering plant”?
According to TheFreeDictionary.com, rendering is defined as follows: “Rendering is an industrial process that converts waste animal tissue into stable, value-added materials. The majority of tissue processed comes from slaughterhouses but also includes restaurant grease and butcher shop trimmings. This material can include the fatty tissue, bones, and offal, as well as entire carcasses of animals condemned at slaughterhouses, and those that have died on farms (deadstock), in transit, etc. The most common animal sources are beef, pork, sheep or poultry.”
EVERY DAY, approximately 750,000 pounds of livestock carcasses, meat and poultry processing byproducts, and grease from restaurants and food service businesses are rendered. While there have been many attempts over the past few years to control the issue (see articles here), the smell still persists. What we would like to do with this site is collect some data so we may better understand when and ultimately why some days are so smelly. With the data we collect we hope to be able to provide the rendering plant, the Air Quality Management District, the city and you the homeowner with information regarding the smell and what we all can do to better control it.
We encourage you to login and rate the smell on a daily basis or at least on those days in which the smell is particularly bad. Our “stink-o-meter” is easy to use. Simply click on the bar (1 for “ahh roses”, 10 for “peeeeeeewwww!”), then click submit. Your daily rating will be logged in our database for later review.
Thank you and here’s to sweeter smelling days!
The WITS group
July 28th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
yeah, it stinks, 9 out of 10
August 14th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Um. The rendering plant has been there for decades and has smelled for decades. I don’t think it’s appropriate for residents to complain about the plant - people who actually thought about living in the area should have done their homework or, at the very least, should have driven down Sunrise once! Let the buyer beware!
August 28th, 2007 at 9:36 am
mattr - Do you live in Anatolia? We were aware there was a rendering plant nearby, but did not realize the smell was this bad. If you don’t live nearby then your 2 cents isn’t really worth much. Just sayin’.
September 18th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
I am thinking about buying a house in the Sunridge Park area. While I was visiting the sight, I did not smell anything. Do you think the smell will reach the Sunridge Park area?