When fats, oils, and grease are poured or flushed down your sinks, drains, or toilets they enter the sewer system where they cool, harden and stick to the inner walls of sewer pipes. Over time, as more fats, oils, and grease are added to the system, these sewer blockages build-up and harden until they completely plug the pipes.  The hardness of the blockages makes them very difficult and costly to clean out.

 

Getting rid of leftover vegetable oils and animal fats can be a hassle. Which is why we do it all for you, without charging you anything.

 

We offer a free collection of Waste Cooking oil within most parts of UK and council areas. We specialize in waste collections and are licensed with the Environment Agency.

 

On collection of Waste Oil we give a Controlled Waste Collection Invoice.  

 

The packaging that is collected such as cardboard, aluminium tins and plastic containers will be recycled helping the environment and reducing rubbish sent to Landfill Sites. 

 

We collect from Catering Companies, Restaurants, Takeaways, Fish & Chip Shops, Hospitals, Care Homes, Hotels and Homes.

 

 Minimum collections are of 20 to 100 litres depending on the area you are situated. We can collect Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) in your old containers that you buy it in or we can leave you one of our small blue barrels. We collect free of charge on a regular basis from your doorstep weekly or on a monthly basis.

 

 The Government strongly supports the recovery of Waste Cooking Oil for such purposes as it underpins its strategies in both reducing dependency upon landfill sites as a means of waste disposal and reducing the use of Fossil Fuels for energy generation.

 

Guidance issued jointly by the Food Standards Agency, Cabinet Office, Environment Agency, Defra, HM Revenue and Customsand LACORS, advises that if you produce waste vegetable rapeseed cooking oil and animal fats as part of your catering business, (for example as a chip shop or other takeaway outlet or restaurant), then you must ensure that it is stored properly, that non is allowed to spill and that it is collected by an authorised collector who will take your waste to an authorised site for recovery or disposal. In most cases waste vegetable oil is used as a source for Biodiesel.

 

Waste vegetable oil must not be poured down the drains or sewers because of this inevitably leads to blockages and odour or vermin problems and may also pollute water courses leading to problems for wildlife nor should animal fats be dumped causing further environmental problems. Such action could also result in prosecution. Nor should waste vegetable oil be disposed of with the rest of the catering or kitchen waste because it may cause spillages leading to odour or pollution problems or waste contractors may refuse to remove it.

 

Collections are arranged at mutually convenient times and you are provided with all the appropriate paperwork to satisfy Food Hygiene Inspections and the Environment Agency.