Where to dispose of cooking oil?

[Mustard]

I have an almost full bottle.

[ruffers]

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/10070/recycling/1364/reuse_and_recycling_centre/2

[Mustard]

Thank you. Was hoping there was somewhere closer, so as not to have to go on bus there.

[Guest]

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/topics/waste/123038.aspx

[Peckhamrye]

I am with TD, I pour used oil into empty plastic bottles and put it in my bin.

[KidKruger]

or you could pour it into plastic bottles and leave it in groups of bottles at select locations in the back streets of East Dulwich. Hold on...

[The Minkey]

Yeh, I do the same PR. Bottle and bin.

[Mustard]

Wonder what happens to the bottles in the bin. They could get broken in the crushing mechanism and get spread everywhere.

[Jah Lush]

Eat it. Bread and dripping.

[Sue]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Eat it. Bread and dripping.

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Bread and used vegetable oil (or whatever) probably won't taste quite the same ..... :))

[Jah Lush]

I was only half joking Sue. My dad loved bread and dripping. Of course it was lard in those days. Personally, I thought it was disgusting. But my mum would save the used oil and put it in the fridge and dad would spread it on his bread. When you've grown up on rationing and a household of a single mother bringing up five kids as my dad did nothing went to waste. Years later of course, you find out that bread and olive oil works and is rather tasty.

[Mustard]

This isn't olive oil, it/s rapeseed oil.

[Jah Lush]

Oil is oil. Do as I do. Pour it into a container. Put it in the fridge to settle. Then scrap it out and put into a plastic bag and then shove it in the bin. Gone. You can wave goodbye to it when the refuse men come and take it away. Sorted.

[BrandNewGuy]

These folks collect used cooking oil in Southwark and turn it into biodiesel, but only from pubs, restauarants and so on, I think:

http://www.uptownoil.co.uk/vegetable_oil_collection.html

It would be nice to have a collecting point(s) for domestic oil, perhaps. Biodiesel from waste oil is the one biofuel that makes sense economically and ecologically.