Keep Cooking Oil Out of Your Sink
The City’s Wood Dale for A Greener Tomorrow Committee is excited to partner with SCARCE to bring a cooking oil drop off location to Wood Dale! The cooking oil is then recycled into biodiesel. The drop off location is located on the south side of the Public Works building located at 720 N Central Avenue. There is a outside bin on the south end of the building where you may drop off your container of oil. It is labeled for cooking oil drop off.
Even if hot water is running and grease is liquid when it goes down the drain, cooking oils and fats solidify when they reach cold pipes. Cities and homeowners spend thousands of dollars on resulting sewer clogs. Garbage is for solid waste only so what’s a person to do?
Recycle your used cooking oil into biodiesel! Save your vegetable cooking oil in a container and bring it to a cooking oil recycling location or special event. Locations accept liquid, vegetable-based cooking oil only – no animal fats (i.e. those solid at room temperature).
Learn more about cooking oil recycling including what to do with animal fats here.
Thanks to a grant from the DuPage Foundation, SCARCE has been able to help communities establish permanent cooking oil collection sites. Contact us Public Works for more information.
