On Nov. 25, when leftovers line fridge shelves and stuffing recipes slip back into kitchen drawers, Thanksgiving feasters will have the opportunity to get rid of their waste cooking grease and help the environment in the process.

During the 7th Annual Day-After-Thanksgiving Grease Drive, Tucson-based company Grecycle Arizona, LLC will collect used grease with several drop off points across Tucson.

Grecycle was founded by Mike Kazz, who graduated in 1992 from the UA's agricultural and biosystems engineering department, a joint program between the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering.

Since then, Kazz has hired two more UA graduates: Burch, who is an associate chemical engineer and Grecycle's advertising lead, and Walter Diaz, an engineer who came to the UA from his native Mexico to obtain a master's degree in agricultural and biosystems engineering in 2007.