A Handy Cooking Oil Recycling Bin

You can just bin small amounts of cooking oil in kitchen roll. But for larger amounts, it should never be poured down sinks, as it can clog pipes and even cause fatbergs (which cost councils millions to break up). Also never pour cream liqueurs down sinks either, drink them up!

Cool oil before pouring in containers (scrape & bin grease from pans & tins first). Read our post on unclogging sinks and drains, naturally.

Don’t give leftover fatty foods to garden birds or wildfowl (it smears on feathers, affecting waterproofing & insulation).

Suitable for all types of cooking oil (and residual oils in tinned food), this bin has a removable filter that prevent solids, from passing into the container. The wide opening allows for easy filling, and the pouring spout has a drip-catch system for quick easy emptying.

Unless you deep-fry a lot of food (it’s safer to take it to Argos for recycling and swap it for a new safe air-fryer), you likely won’t need an oil recycling container for your kitchen.

But this is a good purchase for small eateries that do use a fair bit of cooking oil. For larger amounts that are too much for recycling, there are plenty of organisations that will collect used cooking oil for you, and take it off for recycling, usually to make into biodiesel oil.

Visit Recycle Now and enter your postcode, to find your nearest cooking oil recycling points.