Recycle your used cooking oil at local recycling centers

Charleston County has partnered with local SC cooking oil recycling company, Green Energy Biofuel, to help keep our residents’ cooking oil out of the landfill, environment, and water systems and into a SC renewable energy program. Green Energy Biofuel currently recycles cooking oil for over 70% of South Carolina’s County Recycling Centers, and in 2020 alone they helped our state’s recycling centers divert over 300,000 pounds of cooking oil from being landfilled.

Cooking oil that is disposed of improperly harms the environment and the animals that inhabit it, clogs pipes which leads to expensive repairs and filtration services for both your house and the county, and eliminates the opportunity to recycle the cooking oil into a renewable energy source that is cleaner and more efficient than traditional fossil fuels.

Whether frying turkeys over the holidays, chicken wings for the big game, or hosting a charity fish fry, help do your part in protecting our environment by recycling your cooking oil and bring it to one of Charleston County’s (8) staffed convenience center drop off locations. Each center will have a clearly marked and easy to use cooking oil collection container just like the one pictured here that you can quickly dispose of your cooking oil in. You can store your cooking oil in plastic jugs, buckets, bottles, and a variety of other common household containers that will make transporting and disposing of your cooking oil quick and easy.

Please help Charleston County become a greener community by recycling your cooking oil. You can find the directions to the Charleston County drop off locations by visiting the following link (please note: only the manned convenience centers currently have cooking oil collection containers). The Awendaw and McClellanville drop off centers are the closest for Mount Pleasant residents, but there are six additional drop off locations throughout Charleston county.