This tip comes from my reader Ally….
Grease and cooking oil leftovers going down the drain is absolutely horrible for not only your pipes, but for the town’s sewer system as well.You should check and see if any of your town utilities sponsor grease recycling. The city of Mobile, AL does. They have a campaign where you pick up empty containers at the water/sewer companies, or the recycling centers. You fill it, then drop it off. They use the grease for various things around town for bio-fuel. (I think some of the buses are fueled this way now).
Give it a shot. Maybe if your town doesn’t have it, they may be interested in developing a program. It’s become pretty popular around Mobile.
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caroline says
it is easy to be ungreasy in Mobile! this is a great program but I second the wish for drop off recycling bins around town!
Carra says
I live in Mobile and this really is a great program! There are containers set up all over town where you can drop off your used container full of grease and pick up a fresh one. I just wish we had more drop offs for other recyclables! It’s annoying having to drive almost downtown to drop off plastic, glass, and metal. There are paper recycling bins in a lot of places but it would be nice to have other recycling readily accessible. I drive all the way to the recycling center (about a 25 minute drive from my house) but I don’t enjoy doing it!
Carol says
For Northwest Florida this is what I found!
Residential Cooking Grease Disposal Program Sites:
Clean & Green
3303 N. Davis Hwy.
Baskerville Donovan Engineering
449 West Main St.
ECUA at Ellyson Industrial Park
9255 Sturdevant St. (Outside gate, left of garage entrance)
ECUA Sanitation Department
3050 Godwin Lane (At east end of employee parking)
ECUA Bayou Marcus Water Reclamation Facility
3050 Fayal Dr. (Outside gate, right of plant entrance)
Via de Luna Drive
Adjacent to the green recycling bins, between Pensacola Beach Elementary School and Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church.
Aboard NAS Pensacola (Military and Base Personnel Only) stations are located at:
Andrew Jackson Court
Fort Santa Maria de Galve Hase Road and Slemmer Avenue
Abb Street across from the Naval Survival Training Institute
And two new locations under construction at:
Murray Street and Billingsley Street
Corry Field Housing at NAS Corry Station
ECUA Residential Cooking Grease Disposal Program (FOG)
Disposing of household grease correctly is essential to ensure that your home’s plumbing and ECUA sewer lines don’t get “all choked up.” Pouring cooking grease down the drain is not recommended because as grease cools, it hardens, leading to “chokes” in your plumbing or sewer line. Even though we live in a warm climate, many fats harden at room temperature.
The aim of ECUA’s Grease Disposal Program is to help our customers capture and dispose of their cooking grease in an environmentally safe and effective way. Please return the used oil to the container it came in (if possible), or pick up a grease container that you can use to store and dispose of household cooking grease (see locations below). Return your filled container to any of the designated locations, and exchange it for an empty container, ready to repeat the process. It’s that simple!
Thanks for helping us keep sewer lines and your home’s plumbing clear and unclogged. For more information, please call ECUA Customer Service at (850) 476-5110.
MM says
Out in our very rural area, unfortunately we don’t have anything like this, but to save my pipes I take old coffee canisters and put the grease in there then just stick it in the freezer. Then just throw it out once it gets full. I’m not quite sure what else to do with it other than throw it out…I’d love some ideas if anyone has any.