If you plan to deep-fry a turkey for Thanksgiving, here’s a heads up: Did you know cooking oil sticks to sewer pipes, causing costly clogs and breaks, and grease can even interfere with water treatment at sanitary facilities.
The city is participating in a program this year that will allow you to avoid these risks by turning your cooking oil into biofuel.
The move is intended to keep cooking oil out of sewers, according to a release the city posted on its website this week. A cooking oil recycling program led by SCARCE, short for School & Community Assistance for Recycling & Composting Education.
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Just use a milk jug, a bucket or other container to bring your used liquid cooking oil to the Wheaton Public Works facility, 821 W. Liberty Drive, between 9 a.m. and noon Saturday, Nov. 30.
The used oil will be collected and then turned into biofuel. You will take the container in which you brought the used oil home.
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This is for cooking oil only — motor oil will not be accepted.
If you have questions about the program, you can check the SCARCE website, or call the organization at 630-545-9710.
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