The Thanksgiving feast is over and now the Town of Queen Creek wants to remind you to recycle all that cooking oil in the town's free recycling program.
Cooking oil should never be dumped down a drain or disposed of in the trash, garbage containers, dumpsters or down the public sewage system. Cooking oil poured down the drain negatively affects water quality and can cost thousands of dollars in sewer repairs from pipe blockages. Placing oil in your trash or recycling carts leads to contamination and spillage. It also has the potential to cause cart fires or fires in the collection vehicles.
Queen Creek residents can recycle used cooking oil for no charge at either of the town’s year-round grease collection sites: Fire Station 2, at 24787 S. Sossaman Road, and the QC Recycles Center, at 22638 S. Ellsworth Road. The used oil is collected and turned into clean biodiesel fuel. Learn more here.
