Waste disposal of fat

We have foxes and squirrels Iam but no sign of rats at all and long may it continue.

We did however have a rat in our garden years ago. DDs, when they were toddlers, told us there was a 'big' mouse behind their chute. It turned out they were nesting in a neighbour's wood pile . DH killed it but I won't go into details. More

I put solid fat in the food waste bin, oil gets tipped into an empty milk carton, and then thrown in the bin.

Didn't some bright spark state that you're never more than 10 foot from a rat ......... Nothing to do with getting rid of fat but does anyone else have slow worms and grass snakes in their compost bin?
No room for any rats I guess!

Cool and mix with oats and sun-flower seeds to the birds- no rats or squirrels around here, so that is fine.

Oil goes down the sink. Followed by washing up water. No problem.

I used to put it in the compost bin. Too lazy to trot out there with it now. It's rapeseed oil. It doesn't solidify.

Don't think oil is meant to go down the drain either, jingl. I put fat or oil in the green cone (an aerobic waste food digester which is partly buried so that rats can't smell it) or in winter, wipe it off dishes with kitchen roll (or used paper napkins which I keep when we eat out as they just get thrown away and they can be very useful as hankies as well, if you have a cold and even man-sized tissues are not enough) before I wash them (this is back to dishes now, not napkins; keep up at the back) and then put them in the fire.

Green cones: www.greatgreensystems.com Not cheap, but they last for ever and are the answer to what to do with meat and fish, cooked or uncooked, if you have room in your garden and your council doesn't collect food waste.

A friend once blocked the drain at her kitchen sink by pouring the fat from the turkey down it. On Christmas Day, of course. It was snowing outside - the drain was very cold. It cost an arm and a leg to get someone to turn up to unblock it, and Christmas dinner was very late.

I save the plastic reseal bags from dishwasher tablets and pour the fat into them and place in the bin.

Remember that documentary about 'FAT MOUNTAINS' in London drains- it was sooo disgusting and scary. Could not use any wipes or 'wet' WC paper or pour any fat down drain since.

Turkey fat goes semi solid. Rapeseed oil doesn't. It washes away.

But if it is mixed with fat from, say, bacon it would go semi-solid, wouldn't it?

I am so glad it washes away, I will drink a glass of water after eating my potatoes roasted in rapeseed oil then there won't be so many calories to go on my hips or tummy!

Yes, I saw that granjura Yuck

Fatberg!

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/london-sewer-cleaners-fatberg-fightback-095936024.html?vp=1

I'm very careful about what I put down the drain, I was told about this years ago. I think sewer workers are unsung heros.