The St. Charles Natural Resources Commission is internet hosting its first-ever cooking oil assortment from 9 a.m. to midday Saturday, Nov. 27, within the car parking zone of the St. Charles Public Works Workplace, 1405 South 7th Ave.
Any liquid veggie based mostly cooking oil is accepted, and you may get your cooking oil recycled into biodiesel by Green Grease at this in the future assortment occasion.
Convey your liquid, vegetable based mostly cooking oil in a sealed container to be recycled. Oil should be in a container with a lid that’s safe (milk jug with lid, oil container with lid, detergent bottle with lid). No animal fat are accepted (any oil/fats that solidifies).
Recycle Thanksgiving Cooking Oil
The vacation cooking season is approaching. In case you’re planning on deep frying a turkey, or anything for that matter, make certain to keep away from pricey errors, and a go to from the plumber, by correctly disposing of kitchen F.O.G. (Fat, Oils, and Grease).
When improperly disposed of down family sinks, cooking oil and fat can construct up in our pipes, very like it does in our arteries, and result in a again up.
In line with the EPA, FOG causes a full 47% of sewer backups nationally. Even small quantities of grease and oil may cause an issue over time. Back in 2014, London had to clear out a 15-ton clog in municipal pipes, dubbed the “fatburg”.
Cooking oil not solely causes clogs however can negatively have an effect on wildlife if dumped outside or in storm drains. A lot so, the EPA regulates cooking oil in the same way it handles petroleum oil.
Cooking Oil At present, Gasoline Tomorrow
Liquids don’t belong within the trash, which makes it tough to eliminate vegetable oils (i.e. these not stable at room temperature). Fortunate for people in and round Kane County, there are nine year round locations that collect used liquid cooking oil.
Moreover, a handful of cities proceed to supply one-day collection points the Saturday after Thanksgiving. These collections take the used cooking oil and convert it into biodiesel. A few of the advantages are:
It’s Simple To Do Your Half
Dangle on to your used liquid cooking oil. Enable it to chill, pour it right into a container with a lid and produce it to a drop off location. SCARCE recommends holding onto the container it got here in for this function.
Listed below are some further suggestions for dealing with F.O.G.
- For bigger quantities of grease or animal fats (i.e. the stuff that solidifies at room temperature), permit it to chill and pour it right into a plastic container with a lid. Some retailer their oil underneath the sink till it’s full, then place it within the trash.
- When cleansing up, scrape leftover meals into the trash, don’t ship it down the sink. Saves water and prevents hint fat from clogging your pipes.
- After permitting pans to chill, wipe them out with a rag or paper towel earlier than you wash them to take away extra fats and oil.
‘There’s Gold in Them Thar’ Fryers!”
Used cooking oil is definitely a useful commodity, nowhere close to the worth of precise gold, however sufficient in order that reports of cooking oil thieves have popped up. Subsequent time you fry, consider it as “panning for gold”. Gather your liquid cooking oil and recycle it. Your pipes, and the planet, will thanks.
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