We provide for all of your San Diego restaurant’s grease needs. We recycle your used cooking oil, clean grease traps, and hydrojet 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.
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.
Used cooking oil must be professionally recycled to ensure the safety of the kitchen and its employees. After cooking oil has been used it needs to be transferred to appropriate containers to store 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 Popeye’s in Detroit caused a very large and expensive problem by disposing of cooking oil in a sewer grate.
Phoenix Pumping provides cooking oil storage containers and equipment to transport the oil to the 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 in San Diego can find information here on where to dispose of it.
Grease traps are required in all restaurants in San Diego County. Grease traps 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.
San Diego’s Food Establishment Wastewater Discharge Program (FEWD), established in 1989, is responsible for the permitting and compliance monitoring of food service establishments to control the discharge of grease into the wastewater collection system.
Grease traps must be cleaned regularly to keep them functioning as intended. All grease traps must be cleaned regularly 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 the trap 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, environmental disasters, expensive repairs, fines, and sometimes the closure of the restaurant.
Shortly after sewer spills caused by grease are reported, FEWD inspectors investigate facilities within the immediate area. A determination is made as to which commercial facilities contributed to the blockage, and more in-depth inspections are conducted at those facilities. Where appropriate, additional requirements and/or procedures are put in place.
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 trap installations and cooking oil recycling in San Diego see this checklist of pretreatment guidelines.
San Diego County encompasses 18 different cities, including the city of San Diego. Phoenix Pumping serves all of San Diego including these cities:
