Grand Natural collects used cooking oil from restaurants and recycles it into biodiesel. The service is free, the pickup is scheduled around your kitchen, and the environmental impact is real.
UCO stands for Used Cooking Oil — the fats, oils, and greases produced by frying and cooking in commercial kitchens. After collection, Grand Natural processes this oil into biodiesel, a renewable fuel that reduces greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum diesel.
Restaurants that participate in UCO recycling programs eliminate a waste stream, meet environmental compliance requirements, and — in many cases — earn cash rebates on the oil they generate. It's one of the few waste services that can actually pay you.
California law requires businesses generating more than 4 cubic yards of organic waste per week — including cooking grease — to have a recycling program in place. Grand Natural's UCO service satisfies this requirement.
The used cooking oil collected from your restaurant can power delivery trucks, buses, and generators. One gallon of UCO produces roughly one gallon of biodiesel. Your waste becomes someone else's fuel.
After collection from your restaurant, used cooking oil goes through a multi-step refinement process:
Used cooking oil that enters the sewer system causes fatbergs, blockages, and costly municipal repairs — and results in fines for the originating restaurant. Proper UCO recycling keeps grease out of the sewer and out of the landfill.
Many municipalities and states have formal UCO recycling requirements for food service businesses. Grand Natural provides service documentation after every pickup so you have a paper trail for inspections and environmental reporting.
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Turn your kitchen's waste oil into biodiesel. Free pickup. Rebates for high-volume accounts.