Families across the country spent Thursday celebrating Thanksgiving and a great many of these families prepared their turkeys via a turkey fryer. Yes, this is a green car blog and yes, I am talking about turkey frying. Think about the byproduct of using a turkey fryer - a huge vat of vegetable oil. What better way to dispose of used turkey fryer oil than to recycle it so that it can be used for biodiesel?

The folks with the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Sustainable Enterprises sponsored the Holiday recycOil 2008 event yesterday, November 29. Boulder, Aspen, Fort Collins and Littleton were just a few of the many Colorado municipalities that participated in the 2008 event.

Exact figures for oil collected at this year’s event were not available as of this posting but in 2007, the 10 collection locations gathered almost 2,000 gallons of cooking oil. The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Enterprises program gathers cooking oil year round and converts it into biodiesel. The Holiday recycOil events are meant for residential customers but business interested in participating year-round can contact the organization directly at (303) 544-1500.

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