The city of Lexington is hosting its annual Gobble Grease Toss this Friday. Fayette County residents will have the opportunity to properly dispose of cooking oil used during the holiday weekend. The city is partnering with the University of Kentucky’s Center for Applied Energy Research. Jennifer Myatt is an Environmental Initiative Specialist with the city of Lexington. In the uprising of renewable energy and resources, Myatt says events like this and the research behind them are significant. She explained the importance of this recycling opportunity for the community, and the future of it as well.
“The Center for Applied Energy Research uses some of our cooking oil for research and they are working on basically converting it to biofuel in different ways. Just to find more efficient ways that we can reuse cooking oil since we have so much of it in our community.”
