We provide for all of your Los Angeles restaurant’s grease needs. We recycle used cooking oil, clean grease traps, and interceptors, hydro-jet clogged pipes, and maintain sump pumps and lift stations. Call 858-437-9438 to begin service.
With decades of experience, we are fully licensed and insured. You can be confident in our expertise and in the reliability of our service.
All restaurants and food service establishments are required to recycle their cooking oil.
All used cooking oil collectors must have a state of California IKG (indelible kitchen grease) hauler’s license to collect and transport used cooking oil. To haul without a license is a serious crime. Haulers and grease trap cleaning companies must be able to provide a manifest for every job they perform in all cities in Los Angeles County. Check your hauler’s license at the link above. Their vehicles must have identifying names and license information on both front doors of every vehicle.
Cooking oil disposal should be done by licensed professionals to insure the safety of the kitchen and its employees. After cooking oil has been used it needs to be transferred to appropriate containers to hold the oil for pickup by Phoenix Pumping. Our regularly scheduled pickup ensures we empty the tank before it is full. Regular pickups prevent spills and deter theft.
Never put grease or cooking oil down the drain. It clogs pipes, causes backups, expensive cleanups, damage to neighbors and contaminates public waterways. The fines can be significant as can the cleanup costs. These restaurant employees at a Popeye’s in Detroit caused a very large and expensive problem by disposing of cooking oil in a sewer grate.
As part of their service Phoenix Pumping provides cooking oil storage containers and equipment to transport the oil to the storage container safely.
All of the oil from your restaurant goes to make cleaner burning fuels such as biodiesel, renewable diesel, and SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel).
Consumers wishing to recycle their household cooking oil can find information here on where to dispose of it.
Grease traps are required in all restaurants in Los Angeles and are needed to prevent oil and grease from clogging pipes and fouling public waterways. Grease traps trap FOGs (fats, oil, and grease) and prevent them from entering wastewater systems. However, grease traps must be cleaned regularly to keep them functioning as intended. Grease traps must be cleaned quarterly, but at least as often as required by the 25% rule.
The 25% rule states that when the grease layer (top) and the food solids (bottom layer) within a grease trap reach 25% of the total depth of liquid in the trap it should be pumped. This is critical to maintaining the effective performance of a grease trap. Grease trap cleaning is best done by professionals such as Phoenix Pumping.
Malfunctioning grease traps can result in floods, smelly odors, expensive repairs, fines, and sometimes the closure of the restaurant.
When Phoenix Pumping cleans your grease trap you get all of these services:
If you want to know more about the rules and regulations governing grease traps and cooking oil recycling in Los Angeles contact Los Angeles County Public Works to see their comprehensive set of pretreatment guidelines. Best management practices for restaurant kitchens as defined by LSAN can be viewed in this video.
Los Angeles County encompasses 88 different cities, including the City of Los Angeles, the 2nd largest city in the US. Phoenix Pumping, based in Vernon, serves all of Los Angeles including these cities:
