photo credit: Kapungo

I recently learned how to correctly dispose of our kitchen grease or cooking oil waste. It should not be flushed down the sink with hot water, where it can clog up pipes and sewers.

One should collect kitchen grease in a metal can or jar and then bring it to a disposal site. Do not use foil lined paper containers like Crisco containers. It could then be trashed, where it will sit in the landfill but recycling it into biodiesel is better. Check with your local recycling program to see if they support this.  San Francisco, EBMUD, and Palo Alto support grease recycling.

They should put this on the label of Cooking Oil Jars..

Kitchen grease is sold by restaurants to recyclers for $0.33 per pound. San Francisco has their own SF Greasecycle program for restaurants.

I did not realize the eco friendly trend had hit trucking firms hauling items.  These firms are using Bio Diesel to fuel their vehicles.

Blue Sky Shipping delivered our kitchen cabinents a couple months back.  All powered by 100% locally made Bio Diesel.

As they put it – “Commercial trucks are the source of 25% of the smog-forming pollutants and over 50% of the soot derived from all highway vehicles; yet they make up less than 2 percent of the vehicles on the road and drive less than 6% of the total miles driven. To put this in greater perspective, trucks emit three times more soot and smog-forming pollutants than a coal-fired power plant, for every unit of energy they burn.”

Ask for Bio Diesel fueled trucks the next time you need big trucks.