LEXINGTON, KY. (Nov. 25, 2025) – 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.”
This event also gives students at the Redwood Cooperative School an opportunity to see how their choices have an impact on the environment. The school has co-hosted the Gobble Grease Toss for ten years, with many of the students helping with the event year after year, from kindergarten to middle school.
The Gobble Grease Toss is free for all Fayette County residents (no businesses). Bring your cooking oil in a disposable, hard-sided container with a lid. Do not bring cooking oil in a bag. Remain in your car and a volunteer will remove the cooking oil for you.
If you cannot make it to the Gobble Grease Toss, you can properly dispose of cooking oil by letting it solidify in the refrigerator and throwing it away in your green trash cart. Cooking oil should never be poured down sink drains, as it can clog pipes in both your home and the City’s sewer system.
For more information on the Gobble Grease Toss, call LexCall at 311 or (859) 425-2255 or visit lexingtonky.gov/gobblegreasetoss.
