Cooking Oil Recycling Program
for Restaurants

How the Recycling Program Works

Enrollment takes less than five minutes. Here's what happens after you sign up:

1. Container delivery — we drop off a 35 or 55 gallon collection container within 24-48 hours
2. Pickups begin — your kitchen pours used cooking oil into the container as it fills
3. Scheduled collection — our driver arrives on your pickup day, swaps or pumps the container
4. Processing — oil is transported to our facility and converted into ASTM-grade biodiesel
5. Documentation — you receive a service record after every pickup
6. Rebate payments — qualifying accounts receive monthly payments based on volume

Environmental Impact of Cooking Oil Recycling

One gallon of used cooking oil produces approximately one gallon of biodiesel. Biodiesel burns cleaner than petroleum diesel and produces up to 86% fewer lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions. For a restaurant that recycles 100 gallons of UCO per month, that's the equivalent of removing a significant amount of carbon from the atmosphere over the course of a year.

Grand Natural can provide per-account environmental impact estimates on request — useful for sustainability reports, green certifications, and marketing materials that highlight your restaurant's environmental commitments.