VO = Vegetable Oil
WVO = Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO)
SVO = Straight Vegetable Oil : Virgin - unused Vegetable Oil
(WVO is used SVO)
The similar terms VO - WVO and SVO may all be used to indicate the use of a vegetable oil.

I have plenty of waste vegetable fat which I have to pay to dispose of. Can you collect it?
YES, we will collect Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) from any restaurant, bar, or hotel in the Houston area. If you have grease available then schedule a pickup. We can provide clean 55 gallon drums for you to keep the grease until it can be collected. We do not charge for the collection, but neither do we pay for it.

How many companies like yours provide the service of picking up oil?
If you look under "rendering" or "grease traps" in the phone book, you will find information on other local companies who may collect cooking oil.  However, other companies may just send it to the landfill.  We don't.  We recycle every drop.  It's just better that way.

Do you pick up cooking oil from any restaurants outside of Houston?
Yes, Your Grease can pick up from restaurants in Richmond, Rosenberg, Stafford, Sugar Land, Cypress, Tomball, Magnolia, and Katy.

What is biodiesel?
Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning alternative fuel produced from domestic, renewable resources such as waste vegetable oil (WVO) or used cooking oil. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be mixed with petroleum diesel in any percentage, from 1 to 99, which is represented by a number following a B. For example, B5 is 5 percent biodiesel with 95 percent petroleum, B20 is 20 percent biodiesel with 80 percent petroleum, or B100 is 100 percent biodiesel, no petroleum. It can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with no major modifications. Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics.

Why make biodiesel from used vegetable oil?
Making biodiesel from virgin oils such as canola or soybeans is not ideal. The crucial point here is that most veggie oil is thrown into the trash, dumped down drains, and into the municipal sewer systems. If the waste oil could be recovered, it would shift the demand of automobile consumption and it would educate individuals into understanding how to control the ecological impact of our consumption.

In cities - restaurants, cafés, and cafeterias produce and abundance of waste cooking oil that can be harvested from restaurants as an "urban crop" instead of using virgin soybean oil.

How much waste vegetable oil is out there?
More than you think! Hotels and restaurants in the United States generate 4.5 billion gallons of waste cooking oil per year. This amount could fill tanker trucks arranged bumper-to-bumper from San Francisco to Washington D.C. and back. The waste cooking oils of Houston could be converted to run the entire public bus system.