# Lipo Fat **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 24, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lipo-fat/26694 "2000-07-24T21:58:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yosemite\_Joy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/13edae/32.png) [@Yosemite\_Joy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yosemite_Joy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lipo-fat/26694/1 "2000-07-24T21:58:50Z")
What do they (Doc’s) do with the fat they suck out of people’s bodies for liposuction? What about amputated arms/legs, or surgically removed organs? I dare ask about aborted babies. Oh the questions people come up with! ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lipo-fat/26694/2 "2000-07-24T22:23:55Z")
At the hospital where my friend works, the items you mention go into a plastic bag and into the dumpster. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lipo-fat/26694/3 "2000-07-24T22:26:55Z")
Tyler Durden says: “Use soap!” ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lipo-fat/26694/4 "2000-07-24T22:27:52Z")
…whereupon it is stolen by Brad Pitt in order to make luxury soap and homemade dynamite. ---
**Author:** ![Yosemite\_Joy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/13edae/32.png) [@Yosemite\_Joy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yosemite_Joy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lipo-fat/26694/5 "2000-07-24T22:31:13Z")
They \* can’t \* just \*\* throw \*\* it away!! At least they have to burn it right? ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lipo-fat/26694/6 "2000-07-24T22:31:40Z")
Incinerator. As a matter of fact when your poster handy was working at the Salk Institute with little lab animals we would throw them in the oven in back. I saw a film recently about a guy who snuck into a dumpster to take out that lipo fat [they wouldn’t throw it in a dumpster, its just a film] & turned it into shampoo I think it was, quite a successful product too. ---
**Author:** ![Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanook_of_the_North_Shore)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lipo-fat/26694/7 "2000-07-25T00:56:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\* > I saw a film recently about a guy who snuck into a dumpster to take out that lipo fat [they wouldn’t throw it in a dumpster, its just a film] & turned it into shampoo I think it was, quite a successful product too. \*\* Ya mean _Fight Club_, which two posters already made refernce to? Slippin in your old age are ya handy? ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2000, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lipo-fat/26694/8 "2000-07-25T08:56:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yosemite\_Joy \* > \*\*They \* can’t \* just \*\* throw \*\* it away!! At least they have to burn it right? \*\* You are correct. They had two dumpsters. The ‘biological’ one was emptied into the incinerator. This answers another thread as to why there are not too many tombstones for babies who are delivered dead anymore. But the placentas were saved at one time to make skin care products for women. Cecil did at least one column on this.