Restaurant Grease Waste
Restaurant grease waste is not one bin. Fryer oil, drain grease, and food scraps leave the kitchen on different paths.
Spent fryer oil is used cooking oil. It goes in a sealed container and can be recycled as yellow grease. Grease that goes down the sink is meant to stop in an interceptor. That box sits in the kitchen drain line or in the ground outside and holds fats, oils, and grease so they do not go straight to the sewer.
Plate scrap and prep waste are a third stream. A city compost program usually does not want fryer oil in the organics cart. Oil is a commodity with its own container. Scraps, when a city collects them, stay in the organics bin.
The practical split is the waste plan: oil in the caddy, drain grease in a trap that is pumped, and scraps in the organics bin if the city has one.
Food Service Waste Management · Cooking Oil Recycling · Grease Interceptor Services · Yellow Grease from Used Cooking Oil
