What is the proper way to dispose of old used cooking oil??

Question

I read the answer to this question 3 months ago just now, and I'm looking for a better answer. I don't think that you're supposed to throw it in the trash, but just wondering if there is another way to dispose of it. I have a couple of old bottles full of it, taking up my cabinet space. Just trying to be earth friendly. Appreciate any answers that may be helpful!!

Answer 1

call jiffy lube and ask them

Answer 2

I put it in a fat can (Can theat had at one time food in it then refrigerat it and when it is full throw it out

Answer 3

It would also be possible to use it in an oil lamp or candle (depending on how thick it is).  This *might* smell good, depending on the oil.

Answer 4

Get creative.  When I was in high school, my brother decided to bake a pie.  However, he didn't have any shortening to go into the pie crust recipe.  So, he used some clean muslin cloth and heated and strained through it some of the used cooking oil in mom's "grease jar" and re-used it in the pie dough.  No one could tell the difference.  Were we surprised - and shocked - when he told us what he'd done.  There was absolutely no taste of any cooking that it'd been used for in the past.  You should be able to filter it through coffeemaker filters or something similar and reuse it.

Answer 5

Waste cooking oil as biofuel

New findings by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Science and Technology, demonstrated that biodiesel made from waste cooking oil offered the greatest reductions in greenhouse gases (over 50 per cent) when compared with fossil fuels. Bioethanol made from whey also performed very well in terms of its overall environmental footprint. The least environmentally friendly biofuels identified by the study were biodiesel made from Brazilian soy and bioethanol made from potatoes, rye and soy. These were all assessed to produce lower reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and have higher negative environmental impacts.

Based on www.ec.europa.eu/environment/life/news/

The same stuff used to fry chicken and potato wedges has become a gold mine of energy to the grocery store owner, John Stokes in Idaho.

Stokes heard about the possibility of using vegetable oil as fuel for a car engine, and recognizing his own supply of the oil, he decided to put the waste to better use. "Not only am I not spending money on fuel, I’m saving not having to have it picked up," said Stokes.

He added to his 1984 Mercedes Benz a $3,000 conversion kit developed by a Seattle man. "This is my vegetable oil tank," said Stokes. The Mercedes still requires diesel fuel to start the car, but after only a mile of driving the system heats the oil enough to be used as fuel and then its all veggie oil - all the time.

He says the saving should pay for the kit within a year.

Based on Idaho News

Answer 6

Find someone who will make it into diesel fuel - repost this question in alternative fuels/cars, and see if someone's near you - unless you want to do it yourself.

Answer 7

Who the h**l is going to turn cooking oil into bio fuel???  So what you geniuses are saying is go out with the little cooking oil I have, find someone that converts it (which aren't usually readily accessible, mind you), then ask that he takes my 3 pints of DIRTY canola oil and make a fuel that wouldn't even run a car for a couple miles all while burning how ever much gas to get there and back at $3.25 a gallon??  That has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.  Do what someone else said,  coffee can, refridgerator, solidify, dispose.  Simple.

Answer 8

Burn It