SAN DIEGO \u2014 San Diego Coastkeeper is urging residents to consider the impact of Turkey Day dinners on the ocean. According to the environmental watchdog group, fats, oils and grease (which they call F.O.G.) are the leading source of sewage spills, and a holiday like Thanksgivin \u2014 with activities centering around food \u2014 has the potential to increase the likelihood of such a spill. When F.O.G. is sent down the drain, it builds up in pipes and over time can cause pipes to burst, leaking sewage into local waterways. Coastkeeper is serving up tips advising Thanksgiving chefs on how to responsibly deal with F.O.G.: \u2022 For small amounts of F.O.G., scrape out or use paper towels to wipe pans, then place the F.O.G. or soiled paper towels in the garbage. \u2022 Pour excess fat into used milk or frozen juice cartons, let harden and then place it in the garbage. \u2022 For larger amounts of F.O.G. (like after deep frying a turkey), city residents can recycle cooking oil and grease at the Miramar Landfill Recycling Center. \u2022 Visit www.sdcoastkeeper.org to find more tips and local F.O.G. Recycling resources \u2014Kendra Hartmann<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SAN DIEGO \u2014 San Diego Coastkeeper is urging residents to consider the impact of Turkey Day dinners on the ocean. According to the environmental watchdog group, fats, oils and grease (which they call F.O.G.) are the leading source of sewage spills, and a holiday like Thanksgivin \u2014 with activities centering around food \u2014 has the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":290602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Coastkeeper dishes up tips to deal with Thanksgiving waste","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}