19/10/2026
FROM THE FRYER TO A NEW PURPOSE
What happens to cooking oil after it leaves a commercial kitchen?
With the right collection systems and processing partners, used cooking oil becomes a valuable resource for renewable fuel production.
Restaurant Technologies’ newly released 2026 Impact Report shows the scale of this opportunity. The company reports recycling 393 million pounds—approximately 178,000 tonnes—of used cooking oil during 2025. Its bulk fresh-oil delivery system also helped eliminate 19.3 million plastic oil jugs.
The connection goes well beyond recycling. Automated oil management brings together delivery, storage, filtration, monitoring and collection, helping reduce manual handling while supporting traceable resource recovery.
This is exactly where hospitality, waste management and logistics meet.
Through HospitalityChain.com, GlobalWasteControl.com and WorldFreightDirect.com, we are building connections between the businesses that use these resources, the specialists who recover them and the operators who move them.
Ahead of attending a waste industry expo in Australia in two weeks, I’m looking forward to meeting businesses working in cooking-oil recovery, kitchen automation, collection technology and renewable fuels.
If your business operates in this space, let’s connect. There is a valuable story to share—and an opportunity to help more hospitality operators find the right solutions.
Source: Restaurant Technologies’ 2026 Impact Report announcement, 13 October 2026. Figures are company-reported.
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