How to Recycle Frying Oil in Mobile, Alabama

Mobile residents can easily recycle their frying oil.

For Mobile residents who are unsure what to do with their frying oil, recycling is the answer. The cooking grease is recycled into industrial lubricants, animal feed and bio diesel fuel. Various locations around Mobile offer residents opportunities to drop off used frying oil as part of a citywide cooking grease recycling program.

Things You'll Need

• Leak-proof container

Instructions

1. The Mobile Area Water & Sewer System launched a cooking grease recycling program called "It's Easy to Be Ungreasy," which provides residents with an environmentally friendly way to dispose of cooking grease.

2. Residents can visit one of the recycling cages located around Mobile and pick up a free container for the cooking grease. The containers are located outside, where they are easily accessible any time of day. When the container is full, bring it back to the cage and get another.

3. The Mobile Area Water & Sewer System accepts grease in other containers as long as they are leakproof and sealed. Many people pour their used peanut oil back into the bottle they bought it in and drop it off.

Tips & Warnings

• Recycling cages are at the following locations: Mobile Area Water & Sewer System offices at 207 N. Catherine Street and 4725-B Moffett Road; Keep Mobile Beautiful, 1451 Government Street; the Hillsdale Community Center, 558 Felhorn Drive; St. Luke's Episcopal School, Japonica Lane and Azalea Road; and various Greer's and Circle K stores.

References

• It's Easy to Be Ungreasy Program