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    SCARCE

    800 S. Rohlwing Rd. (Rt. 53)
    Unit D
    Addison, IL 60101

    info@scarce.org

    630-545-9710

    Cooking Oil Recycling


    Keep Cooking Oil Out of Your Sink

    Even if hot water is running and grease is liquid when it goes down the drain, cooking oils and fats solidify when they reach cold pipes. Cities and homeowners spend thousands of dollars on resulting sewer clogs. Garbage is for solid waste only so what’s a person to do?

    Recycle your used cooking oil  into biodiesel!  Save your vegetable cooking oil in a container and bring it to a cooking oil recycling location or special event. Locations accept liquid, vegetable-based cooking oil only – no animal fats (ie those solid at room temperature).

    Learn more about cooking oil recycling including what to do with animal fats here.

    Thanks to a grant from the DuPage Foundation, SCARCE has been able to help communities establish permanent cooking oil collection sites. Contact us for more info.

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    Permanent Cooking Oil Collection Sites

    Bensenville Public Works

    717 East Jefferson St, Bensenville
    Monday-Friday 7:30am-3:00pm

    Downers Grove Sanitary Treatment Center

    2710 Curtiss Street, Downers Grove
    24 hour drop-off

    Glenbard Wastewater Authority

    630-790-1901
    945 Bemis Rd Glen Ellyn
    24-hour drop-off

    Household Hazardous Waste Facility

    156 Fort Hill Dr, Naperville
    Saturdays & Sundays 9 AM - 2 PM
    (excluding holidays)

    Milton Township Road District

    23W040 Poss St, Glen Ellyn
    Monday-Friday 7am - 3pm

    Salt Creek Sanitary District

    201 IL-83, Villa Park, IL 60181
    *Entrance can only be accessed from NB IL Route 83
    Monday - Friday 8 AM - 3 PM

    City of Wheaton

    Public Works Yard (south side of 821 W Liberty)
    2nd Saturday of each month from 9 AM - Noon

    Wheaton Sanitary District

    1S649 Shaffner, Wheaton
    Monday-Friday 7:30am-3:00pm

    Winfield Township Road District

    30W575 Roosevelt Rd, West Chicago
    Mondays (excluding holidays) 7am - 11am

    Woodridge-Greene Valley Wastewater Treatment Facility

    7900 S. Route 53, Woodridge
    TEMPORARILY CLOSED - during construction.

    Loyola University

    Institute of Environmental Sustainability
    6349 N. Kenmore Ave. Chicago
    Monday - Saturday 9am-5pm

    Download the Eco-Cheat Sheet PDF from the sidebar on the left for a hard copy of this info as well as SCARCE collections, household hazardous waste info, and medicine disposal drop-offs.


    Annual Cooking Oil Collection Day – Thanksgiving Weekend
    Saturday, November 26, 2022 9am-12pm

    To make cooking oil recycling more convenient for residents, each year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving additional temporary drop-off locations are available for liquid cooking oil. If you’re frying a turkey – or anything else – please bring liquid cooking oil (vegetable-based only, no bacon fat or other solid animal fats) in a container to one of the participating locations. Containers will not be returned so be sure to bring one you don’t mind leaving behind. More info & View locations

    Get involved! Contact erin@scarce.org

    Thank you to our recycling partner Green Grease Environmental.

     


    Learn more with our resources below:

    Cooking oil recycling with SCARCE Founder, Kay McKeen, on WDCB Weekly – Nov 2020


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