(AP) -- Phil DeVore pulls a folded piece of aluminum from a murky pond. The aluminum looks like a piece of siding that's blown off a building, but DeVore knows it's much more valuable than that. He slips a rubber band off the aluminum and unfolds it. He likes what he sees -- 50 or 60 glistening black leeches. They're your common ribbon leeches, Nephelopsis obscura to aquatic biologists.
Store the oil to be reused in cooking or deep frying for no longer than three months and avoid re-using the oil for deep frying more than once or twice, as the smoke point of used oil is reduced after multiple uses. Avoid pouring your used deep fryer oil down the drain or tossing it in the trash.
Look for oils displaying the API starburst. You can make a difference by recycling your used motor oil. Did you know used oil can be re-refined into base stock for lubricating oil. If you recycle just two gallons of used oil it can generate enough electricity to run the average household for almost 24 hours. Cars are an indispensable fact of life for most of us.