Go green on Black Friday at the Gobble Grease Toss! If you fry your turkey on Thanksgiving, bring your used cooking oil to the Redwood Cooperative School, 166 Crestwood Drive, on Friday, Nov. 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to be recycled.
The sixteenth annual Gobble Grease Toss is a partnership between the City of Lexington, Redwood Cooperative School, the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research and Kelley Green Biofuel. Every year, Lexington residents recycle hundreds of gallons of cooking oil to keep it out of the landfill and bring attention to the harm caused by pouring cooking oil down the drain.
Kelley Green Biofuel will convert most of the used cooking oil into renewable fuel. Some of the cooking oil will be used for biofuel research at UK CAER, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the UK Energy Research Priority Area.
“UK CAER is excited to participate in this longstanding event and partnership,” said Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, Associate Director of UK CAER and Adjunct Professor at the UK Department of Chemistry. “This event has diverted thousands of gallons of grease away from sewers and landfills toward renewable fuel research and production.”
