Turkey cooking oil collection

[RecycleMichael]

Here is the newest collection event in the Tulsa area...

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=15&articleID=071122_1_A31_spanc36170

Turkey-cooking oil collection day set
By PHIL MULKINS Action Line Editor
11/22/2007

Dear Action Line: Every Thanksgiving we use the turkey deep-fryer out on the patio. This generates six or more gallons of used peanut oil. Can we reuse it, or what else can be done with it? The trash haulers won't take it. -- W.H., Tulsa.

Propane-fired turkey deep-fryers hold as much as 7-1/2 gallons of oil, with peanut oil favored by most deep-fried-turkey chefs. Peanut oil sells online for $16 to $23 per gallon, meaning this cooking method can cost $120 to $172.50 just for the oil. Chefs tell us the oil can be used three to four times if it is immediately filtered through restaurant-grade, cooking-oil filters. Otherwise, the acidity brought on by the oil's contact with the turkey and oxidization soon turn it rancid and unusable.

This is why the Metropolitan Environmental Trust and Tulsa Biofuels LLC are joining to collect fryer oil from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 8 at the M.E.T.'s Central Tulsa Recycling Center, 3495 S. Sheridan Road. The event is in response to "citizens' requests to dispose of turkey-cooking oil in a more environmentally friendly way," M.E.T. Executive Director Michael Patton said.

Tulsa Biofuels will turn the collected cooking oil into an alternative fuel source for cars. Co-owner Todd Stephens said the company was founded two years ago by three former engineers and that it will be fully operational this year.

Cooking oil, especially in large quantities, should never be placed in residential trash or poured down drains. Small amounts placed in the trash in sealed containers are acceptable, but quantities as large as seven gallons can pose problems for residential plumbing, city sewers and trash haulers, according to Patton.

The collection event is open to all Tulsa-area residents. Oil should be returned to its original, sealed, plastic jugs. For more information call 584-0584 or go online to www.tulsaworld.com/themet. For information on Tulsa's "Trap the Grease" cooking oil control program, go online to www.tulsaworld.com/citygrease.

[Rico]

Please do not say that this will be a boom for anything unrelated to petroleum oil (energy).

EXXON would love to take their profits up a few more ticks.....

Ethanol.... Milk price goes to $4. because cows need to eat corn and the corn is being used for alternative fuel ethanol...

Romex Electrical wire... Price for 250' one year ago approximately $35.00... Price today $67.00..... because the jacketing for the wire contains petroleum bi products. Not the copper the jacketing....

Someday I hope an individual will put together a collection of the reasons given for Oil price increase and the effects it has placed upon this economy.

Of course when the cost of living is calculated they X out petroleum and other items so your cost of living or inflation is around 2 to three percent...



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