What's the best way to dispose of used cooking oil?

Question

What's the best thing to do with used corn or canola cooking oil? Is throwing it in the toilet a bad choice?

Answer 1

*Freeze the container itself ...... remove the hard lump & dispose ; then scrub the container with either an old newspaper or toilet paper and then wash the container with a liquid detergent !!!!
Lo & behold !!!! u will have a sparkling container , ready for use again !!!!!

Answer 2

Disposing of used cooking grease is an environmentally important task. There are several ways to safely dispose of it, but it should never be poured down the drain.

1. Allow the oil to cool completely before disposing of it.

2. Decide whether the oil needs to be discarded. Oil used for deep-frying can usually be reused several times. Strain it into a clean sealable container.

3. To throw it away, carefully pour it into a strong sealable container, such as an old plastic jar with a lid. Many households save jars for this purpose. Plastic jars are better than breakable glass ones.

4. If the amount of oil is small, place the filled, sealed jar in the trash.

5. Take large amounts of cooking oil to the local landfill.

6. Alternatively, recycle large amounts of used cooking oil with the help of a cooperative local restaurant. Most restaurants have used grease bins, whose contents are recycled into consumer products. Ask if you can add your used oil to their grease bin.

7. Used cooking oil can also be composted with other organic matter. If you have a compost heap or a healthy backyard earthworm population, feed them kitchen scraps. -

Answer 3

If you have public sewers, you could dump it, but that just ultimately raises your taxes, but you may not care. Environmentally it's not the best.

If you have a private septic, you definitely don't want to dump it unless you're getting it pumped real soon.

As others note, either save it up and get it to a transfer station (dump) or put it in a container made for it so it turns into suet (solidifies) and then you can put it out for the birds or whatever. There are places that will take it liquid; I don't know offhand how you find them.

Answer 4

LOL I would not put it down the toilet. As well I would not pour in down the sink it can block the drains and cause a big mess. This happend to me once. The best way to get rid of the oil is to just throw it out with the trash.

Answer 5

Pour oil into a disposable container or cup and place in the freezer. Once it freezes, you can easily dispose. Just wrap well and put in the garbage. Do not put in a toilet or down the drain.

Answer 6

DO NOT dump cooking oil, poultry fat and grease into the kitchen sink or the toilet bowl.

DO NOT use hot water and soap to wash grease down the drain, because it will cool and harden in your pipes or in the sewer down the line.

DO place cooled cooking oil, poultry and meat fats in sealed non-recyclable containers and discard with your regular garbage.

DO use paper towels to wipe residual grease or oil off of dishes, pots and pans prior to washing them.

Answer 7

Experienced it is a bad choice to dispose used oil in sink or toilet. PIPE LINE GETS CLOGGED. We use separate container & dispose in garbage.
Same case with baby nappy pads & menstrual pads

Answer 8

Give it to the guy down the street thats making bio-diesel.Seriously, there are people saving the used cooking oil from fast food places and running it in their diesels.

Answer 9

you need a plastic or tin container to dispose of it. Throw the container in the garbage. You shouldn't flush it down or put it in any sink. It might screw up your plumbing.

Answer 10

Wow! So many wrong answers! If it is a lot of oil ( like from a turkey fryer ) you can call your local government and find out if they have a recycling center you can bring it to. Good luck Chris