Clairmont Heights Civic Association

From the AJC: DeKalb commissioner sees recycling as answer to sewer spill woes, By April Hunt,The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,Wednesday, March 28, 2012:  There are a billion reasons DeKalb apartment complexes should recycle cooking oil and other grease, according to County Commissioner Stan Watson.  Watson is thinking of the $1.35 billion DeKalb is spending to overhaul its water and sewer system to meet a federal mandate to stop sewer spills, 73 percent of which the county says are caused by grease, fat and oil building up in the sewer lines.  But as a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation revealed, none of the projects DeKalb has planned does much more than clean out the existing grease, fat and oil in the sewer lines.  Watson wants to peel some of that money away to launch a recycling program that sets up bins at apartments and to collect the pan drippings that, once purified, can sell for $3.25 a gallon.  “My wife right now has a pot on our stove full of grease. It’s not hard to do,” he said. “Folks can bring it down like they do their trash.” [Read more.]