Good Grease Solutions

Did you know residential cooking fats, oils and grease are recycled at the Alameda County Household Hazardous Waste facilities? If you live in the District, you can drop off used cooking oil and grease for FREE at their facility at 2091 West Winton Ave in Hayward. For a schedule of facility hours, visit www.stopwaste.org.

Cooking oil and grease may seem harmless, but they collect in your household sewer pipes or in the District's main sewer lines when poured down your sink or toilet. In time, the accumulated oil and grease may cause sewer backups and overflows that are not only unsightly and smelly, but can also wreak havoc on local creeks if the sewer overflow ends up in the storm drain system.

Rather than pouring cooking oil and grease into your sink at home, bring them in sealed containers to the Alameda County Hazardous Waste facility. Your cooking oil and grease will be recycled into useful products. Questions? Call Alameda County Hazardous Waste at (800) 606-6606. For more information about the residential cooking oil and grease pollution prevention program, please call Oro Loma Sanitary District at (510) 276-4700.