How Do I Recycle Cooking Oil?

Deep-frying turkeys has become very popular. More and more retailers sell deep fryers that range in size up to 30 gallons. Large amounts of cooking oil from home fryers should not be placed in the garbage or poured down the kitchen drain. You can recycle cooking oil either at your curbside; or at Sacramento County’s Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Drop-Off Center.

Residents can bring used cooking oil to the Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Center free of charge, year round. The HHW Drop-Off Center is located at the North Area Recovery Station (4450 Roseville Road in North Highlands) and is open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. No appointment necessary.

Also, residents may recycle cooking oil at curbside in clear, gallon jugs, with the following guidelines:

• Place used cooking oil in a clear, one-gallon plastic jug and tape lid shut.
• Do not contaminate used oil by mixing with other fluids.
• Do not place oil in the mixed recycling container.
• Used cooking oil containers should be placed on ground at least three (3) feet away from the mixed recycling container.
• Used cooking oil will be collected on the same day the mixed recycling container is serviced.
• Please put out no more than three (3) gallons of used cooking oil per recycling collection day.

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