If you plan to deep fry your turkey for Thanksgiving, you’ll need a plan for how to dispose of the used oil when you’re done.
You could reuse it, of course. (Check out these instructions for proper filtering and storage.) But you should definitely not dump it down the drain.
Large amounts of cooking oil, even if poured down the drain with hot or boiling water, can cause serious damage to your municipal wastewater system. All that oil will eventually cool and can cause clogs and other problems.
Standard Biofuels, which buys used cooking oil from restaurants throughout the Puget Sound region, is collecting the oil for reuse as biodiesel fuel on Nov. 27, 28 and 29.
Check here or call 877-673-3835 for a list of participating restaurants and other collection sites in Snohomish County. Restaurants will contribute the money they would normally be paid for the oil to Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Snohomish County’s household hazardous waste drop-off station in downtown Everett also accepts used oil year-round during limited hours.
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