Contain grease before you rinse dishes
Fats, oils and grease don’t go down easily, so they don’t belong down your drain. These common cooking substances cause destructive and expensive backups into sinks, basements, your neighbor’s home or into public streets. These clogs are bad for everyone, but the good news is they’re easy to prevent.
Cool.
Give the liquid about 15 to 20 minutes to cool (or long enough so that it won’t melt through plastic).
Contain.
then dispose of it into an empty, sealed container and throw your container into your regular trash. Grease containers include jars, glass drink bottles, deli meat containers, or any solid receptacle with a lid – you don’t want that grease leaking out of the bag.
Trash.
Toss your liquid-filled receptacle in with all of your other trash. Now, the hard part is finishing the dishes.
Even just a little bit of grease can do a lot of damage. Garbage disposals, dish soaps, hot water, etc. don’t help. Fats, oil and grease don’t belong in our sewer system, and they’re easy to keep out. All you have to do is contain grease before you rinse dishes.
FOGs.
Fats, Oils, and Greases come in many of the items we consume and use, in skincare and haircare products. Below is s short list of FOGs you can reference to make sure you're disposing of responsibly.
Fats:
- Butter
- Lard
- Tallow
- Ghee
- Shortening
- Duck fat
- Beef fat
- Pork fat
- Cream-based sauces
- Fat trimmings from meat
Oils:
- Olive oil
- Vegetable oil
- Canola oil
- Coconut oil
- Peanut oil
- Sunflower oil
- Avocado oil
- Sesame oil
- Corn oil
- Grapeseed oil
Greases:
- Bacon grease
- Sausage grease
- Fried chicken grease
- Hamburger grease
- Pan drippings from roasted meats
- Turkey grease
- Gravy drippings
- Fish frying grease
- Deep fryer oil residue
- Butter-based sauce leftovers
Sweets That Contain Fats, Oils, and Greases (FOGs):
- Cheesecake (butter in the crust and cream cheese)
- Donuts (fried in oil)
- Brownies (butter or oil in the batter)
- Cookies (butter or shortening)
- Frosted cakes (butter or oil in the cake and frosting)
- Pastries (butter or lard in the dough)
- Ice cream (cream and fat-based ingredients)
- Chocolate truffles (cream and butter)
- Pies (butter or lard in the crust)
- Caramel sauce (butter and cream)
How not to.
Fats, Oils, and Greases need to be contained and tossed in the garbage. Pouring FOGs down the drain can lead to backed up pipes and sewage flooding your home without warning, resulting an expensive and terrible mess.