How to Properly Dispose of Grease & Cooking Oil

No doubt, cooking oil can be easy on the wallet and universally endearing as they can be used to spice up your cooking. They are a surefire way to maximize the food’s nutrition while frying your turkey or chicken during the holidays, high heat cooking, wok cooking, and even roasting.

However, solidified cooking oils are now the biggest threats to the world’s sewer systems because most people take the short cut of pouring them down the drain. They cause early clogs and overly destructive to your drains. 

None is an exception - from vegetable oils to animal grease, and the homemade or sweetened oil, they can clog the sewer pipes if not properly disposed and could be the reason your basement is flooded with sewage.

So, how would you properly dispose of grease and cooking oil at home?

First off, pouring grease or oil down the drain is not an option for homeowners!

Why?

Because cooking oil and grease will ruin your pipes when they are poured down the drain, they wouldn’t stop at that but will clog and cause a huge problem to your sewage system in the foreseeable future

Nevertheless, below are some of the recommended ways by Starr Dumpsters to dispose or handle grease and cooking oil at home

You should throw it into the garbage by following these steps:

• Do not dump them (grease or oil) directly into your garbage when they are hot
• Allow the grease or oil to solidify
• Gradually put it into a disposable container
• And finally, tie it with a plastic bag and throw into the garbage.

Recycle or reuse the cooking oil.

Reusing the cooking oil is only recommended when it has not been heated to its smoke point. This is to avoid using oil that has free radicals and trans fatty acids. However, before reusing the oil, try to follow these procedures:

• Make sure the cooking oil is not rancid by smelling or testing it
• Remove food particles by straining the oil
• Store it in a cool, dry place like the refrigerator.

Take the reuse or recycling of cooking oil as a way to save both the environment and your pocket, and when it's gone bad, dispose it properly.

Discover a collection site in your locality

The collection of cooking oil for recycling is increasingly popular. All you need to do is search online with your zip code or ask the garbage collectors. The oil could be tuned to alternative energy making this the right option for disposing of your oil and kitchen grease.

Some Homeowners also make the mistake of pouring used cooking oil on the ground outside their property; others dispose of cooking oil in their compost pile. These options are wrong and highly detrimental to the environment and make the compost unhealthy.

Rent a dumpster for easy disposal of debris

Renting a dumpster is the way to go when you want to dispose of a reasonable amount of household debris, or you’re undertaking basic spring cleaning. You can rest easy when you can Starr Dumpsters because we will drop off the dumpster at your property and haul it away when it's filled up