Here’s a better way to dispose of used cooking oil

*Photograph by Rebecca Hale via National Geographic*

Don’t pour used cooking oil down the drain. Those oils can damage your home’s pipes and build up in municipal sewers. Oil and fats act as a glue, holding assorted sewer detritus together to create fatbergs, causing backups that require costly manual removal.

Commercially marketed “oil solidifiers” – or a household substance called stearic acid – can transform the oil into a congealed disk for easier disposal in the trash, says sustainability expert Kris Bordessa.

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Here’s a better way to dispose of used cooking oil