RonNNN wrote on Mon, 02 May 2016 17:08:01 -0500:

Pretty much the same here with the exception of a compost pile. Any stale
or bad food goes down the garbage disposal, but I wouldn't think
(cooking) oil would be so good for compost or the garbage disposal.

The cooking oil has a story to it. We often just pour the oil out into
the ground. I imagine it being no different than a dead animal, which
contains fat, meat, and bones, and it gets "eaten" or decomposes pretty
quickly on the ground.

One problem we had with the cooking oil though is that the animals outside
at night would dig up the spot we poured the cooking oil! So, they certainly
were looking for the "buried" dead animal.

Now we pour it in a spot we don't care the animals dig up. Most of the
food is scavenged by animals anyway, which is how it should be. Everyone
always says that will "attract rats" but I think they make this stuff
up because I see a coyote every day, a bobcat once a month, deer every
day, and assorted squirrels and chipmunks every day, but almost never
a rat.

I recycle all kinds of oil by taking it to O'Reilly Auto Parts for
disposal.

Motor oil isn't much of a problem because I just pour it into 1 gallon
jugs also, and just leave it next to the trash bins.

I'm old fashioned though and save bacon grease for cooking
with, just like grandma used to do! [g] Chicken and beef bones get saved
to make stock out of, but I do throw pork bones in the trash. The other
bones go in the trash also after being used up making the stock.

We buy the Costco chicken cooked for about 5 bucks or so and then
we also make chicken soup with the stock and then throw outside
the boiled bones. They always disappear overnight.

So we have our own four-footed garbage cleaning crew.