What to do with old cooking oil.....

[poltr1]

Yesterday, during the MLK holiday, I cleaned out my pantry. Most of it was reorganization and inventory. I came across a few bags of brown sugar that had hardened, and a few bottles of old cooking oil, so old they've turned rancid. (There was also a cardboard canister of hot cocoa mix that some bugs apparently burowed their way into, but that was tossed out the previous week.) I don't want to dump this stuff down the sink. Is there any environmentally good way to dispose of this oil?

[Updated 15:00] According to the Wikipedia entry on cooking oil, I can seal the bottle and throw it out in the trash. I also checked to see if the local waste district accepts used cooking oil for recycling, and they don't.

Comments

[kliklikitty.livejournal.com]

Maybe seal it up and take it to an auto shop that does oil jobs and see if they'll take it off your hands and dispose of it with the old oils that they deal with.

[yourmommma.livejournal.com]

That's a really good idea. That way you could recycle the bottles and the oil. You might have to give them a couple of bucks, but it's probably worth a try.