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Small Restaurant Owner’s Complete Guide to Used Cooking Oil Recycling: Maximizing Profits in Limited Space
Your fryer grease isn’t waste—it’s a hidden revenue stream worth 30–45 ¢ a gallon. Swap the trash barrel for a 45-gallon wall-mount caddy, stop paying disposal fees, and start cashing rebate checks within three months.
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Insurance Perks: Carriers that Reward Documented Grease Recycling
Timely used cooking oil pickups, routine grease-trap cleaning, and scheduled filter exchanges cut fire risk, protect sewer lines, satisfy inspectors, and unlock insurance discounts; turning kitchen waste into biodiesel while lowering premiums, preventing costly repairs, and keeping operations smooth.
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Yellow Grease Commodity Pricing and Why It Fluctuates
Prices go up or down when restaurants dump more or less oil, refineries look for cheaper supplies, government fuel credits change, storms slow shipping, crops raise or cut soy prices, dirty oil loses value, and thieves steal some grease too.
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How Much Is Used Cooking Oil Worth?
For most US restaurants this year, used cooking oil is worth between 10 and 50 cents per gallon.
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