Cooking Oil Recycling
Cooking oil doesn't belong in the garbage, recycling, or yardwaste carts, you can't pour it down the drain and its not hazardous waste. So what do you do with it?
Several Sonoma County restaurants accept clean, liquid vegetable oil that is mostly free of any solids, mean scraps, or water. When you are done deep-frying your holiday turkey, making french fries, or other oil intensive foods, run the liquid oil through a strainer or cheesecloth, bottle it up and take a recycling location. Check www.recyclenow.org and search Oil, cooking/grease for a complete listing of locations.
Can't make it to a location near you? Most restaurants have an oil recycling program in place for their own needs, so consider asking the manager of your favorite establishment if you can deposit your oil in their receptacle. Or, cooking oil can be completely saturated with kitty litter, then double bagged and disposed of in your trash.
Please don't place cooking oil or other liquids in your garbage, recycling or yardwaste containers, as they will squish out of the truck, causing a slick mess on roadways and jeopardizing storm water drains and our local waterways.