Recycle Your Cooking Oil

Cooking oil is a valuable commodity that can become a major nuisance if it is introduced into municipal wastewater. In most localities it is illegal for restaurants to dump their used cooking oil in drains or sewers. San Francisco alone spends over $3.5 million a year to extract oils from wastewater. Those oils are then much more difficult to refine into fuels due to contamination and excess water residue in the oil. Residential disposal of used cooking oil is coming under greater scrutiny, with regulatory actions pending.

Converting material that would otherwise present a strain on resources into valuable fuel is a double win for any community. Sirona Fuels offers free used cooking oil collection services throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and provides grease trap waste collection for a reasonable fee. We also offer programs in which recycling cooking oil with us can result in donations being made to local schools or in the businesses receiving direct payments from us.

To sign up for our used cooking oil collection program please contact us at 510.868.9229 or by email at plant@sironafuels.com

Bay Area Grease Drop Off Locations

Name Location Grease Type Areas Accepted Phone Number
Central Contra Costa Sanitary District Treatment Plant Martinez brown within CCCSD service area only under a CCCSD Waste Hauler Permit
City of Millbrae Millbrae yellow, brown Residential used cooking oil by appointment only. (650) 259-2388
City of Palo Alto, Recycle Center Palo Alto yellow City of Palo Alto (650) 496-5910
City of Palo Alto, RWQCP Palo Alto brown City of Palo Alto (650) 617-3165
East Bay Municipal Utility District Oakland yellow, brown All areas (510) 287-1632
Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency Marina, CA brown Within Monterey County only (831) 883-1118
North San Mateo County Sanitation District Daly City yellow Daly City, Broadmoor Village, Westborough Water District, parts of Colma (650) 991-8208
Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District Elk Grove yellow, brown Sacramento County (916) 876-6361
Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District Roseville yellow, brown Sacramento County (916) 876-6361
Sacramento Rendering Company Sacramento yellow Northern California (916) 363-4821
South Bayside Systems Authority Redwood City yellow, brown San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties (650) 591-7121