While most people know that you have to carefully dispose of cooking oil, many might not know that you can recycle it. Keeping a clean grease trap will let you collect oil that can be recycled and repurposed to benefit the environment, so why wouldn’t you be interested?

How to Recycle Your Cooking Oil

Used cooking oil recycling Santa Barbara doesn’t take much effort on your part and can not only be good for the world but it could possibly give your restaurant a supplemental income. That’s because some oil recycling centers pay for your used oil to promote continued collection.

Cooking oil that’s poured down the drain has fats and grease that has a negative effect on sewers and piping, which in turn can back up sewage or damage your restaurant’s pipes. That’s why it’s so important to filter it out of water and put it in a separate container.

Someone from the used cooking collection Santa Barbara will come by to pick up the container and take it to a recycling facility where the oil is turned into biofuel. The reason that this is so useful is because recycled oil has different properties.

It burns cleaner, which makes it safer for the ozone and the Earth with no CO emissions and less oil. That means that it’s a great alternative to coal and other fuel sources for powering plants, heating, and transportation.

If you want to be more environmentally-conscious, leave your container of oil for a used cooking oil disposal facility Santa Barbara to take care of it and do the world a favor.

Avoid a Greasy Situation

Earlier it was mentioned that the fats and grease could damage your pipes, so the fact that your grease trap is all that stands between you and paying for fixed piping should be interesting. Clean grease traps will filter out the FOG, or fats, oils, and grease.

If you think your trap is failing to reduce the amount that gets through, paying to have a grease trap pumping Santa Barbara will likely be less than paying for new pipes and sewer blockage. This will not only clean your grease trap, but dispose of the layer of FOG correctly.

Over time, fats and grease will harden or collect on your grease trap and make it less effective. Health inspections will charge a fine if you have too much FOG on top of your trap, so it’s best to keep it working at maximum efficiency.

If you’re worried about too much FOG getting through, your grease trap hasn’t been checked in a while, or you want to do more to protect the oceans from harmful pollution, you should get a grease trap cleaning Santa Barbara.