Fork-to-Fuel

Restaurants produce an average of 150 to 250 pounds of grease per week, up to 1,000 pounds per month, or 13,000 pounds per year.

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That's a LOT of grease!

 

Grease that can build up in the pipes beneath your restaurant, reducing the capacity of your sewer line. Potentially causing wastewater to back up into your restaurant, or out into the environment.

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Avoid clogged lines!

 

Grease sticks to your pipes, and to municipal pipes, pump and lift stations, and wastewater treatment equipment, and eventually causes blockages, which are very costly to your restaurant and to your community and its ratepayers. If a wastewater blockage occurs, your restaurant can (and should!) be closed during the cleanup operations, costing you time and money. In addition to any fines and obvious damage to your facility, and to the environment. For which you can be held financially responsible.

 

This grease must be properly disposed of, and needs to be captured and recycled as much as possible, at the source, to avoid having to deal with clogged pipes and plumbing problems, and to help reduce and divert your waste. Grease is a problem for towns and larger cities worldwide, and legislation to prevent FOG pollution is being enforced. Polluters face fines and possible legal action and closure for failure to effectively manage their FOG waste.

 

Grease is produced by cooking, and comes from different sources such as the cooking medium and the meat itself. Items like cheese also release fats and oils when heated, as do soups, dressings, gravies and other foods commonly prepared in restaurants.

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The Grease Trapper is here to provide the most reliable, low maintenance grease recovery devices and removal systems, the Grease Guardian®, to help you capture and recycle your used cooking fats, oils and grease. We recover it ALL. You reap the benefits. Your community gets a boost in economic development and you contribute to the circular economy.

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No pumper needed! Self-cleaning operation saves you $$!!

 

Easy installation. Simple operation. A complete system.
No waste hauler scheduling hassles!

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We are a restaurant and catering drainage products supplier providing  grease, food and coffee grounds traps to commercial kitchens in Southern California - and beyond! We offer more than a plumbing fixture -- it's a complete system to manage fats, oils and grease as a resource. The Grease Guardian is a PROVEN tool to help your restaurant save money each month, contribute to the circular economy and the renewables market in your community, and protect your assets and brand.

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We help you to remain compliant with local, state and federal regulations which require food service establishments to properly manage their fats. oils and grease waste, keep it out of the sewer system, and this helps your waste drain pipes to stay grease-free and flowing the right direction! We offer free technical support and consultation to restaurants, and work with cities to save you time and money and support economic development. 

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You're helping your community with climate change actions while implementing practices that help your business become a partner in carbon recycling. Food to fuel, with a layover in restaurants!

 

What's good for your bottom line is good for your community!​​ Great ROI across multiple industries!!

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Restaurants operate on razor-thin margins and need to control costs, and avoid problems which could cause a closure and bad public relations with your neighbors and customers when the sewer is backing up.

 

Understanding grease-related issues, as well as the regulatory environment is critical to the overall operations of restaurants and other food service facilities. Innovare Environmental, fondly known as "The Grease Trapper", has helped hundreds of restaurants understand the importance of keeping kitchen equipment such as grease traps updated and functioning efficiently. Her understanding of the complex environmental and health/safety regulations pertinent to the food service industry coupled with her education and extensive restaurant inspection and audit experience provides her clients with an invaluable resource.

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Innovare Environmental | The Grease Trapper has a demonstrated track record of providing high-quality, value-added services to restaurants and their communities. She offers sustainable solutions to restaurant owners/operators, franchises, cities and other municipal agencies as an independent, objective, third party advisor to assist you and solve problems.

 

She has also previously worked in restaurants, and knows that staff are loathe to open up and scoop out the smelly grease trap. Grease Guardian has made the grease trap more efficient. It does the work for you, and includes a self-cleaning operation! No odor, no messy rancid grease, no more scooping. Water and food solids are separated right at the source to be recycled into renewable fuels, thus eliminating noxious odors from your kitchen.

 

An automatic grease removal device, Grease Guardian, doesn't smell, does the work for staff, eliminates the need to open the trap thereby controlling food safety ( the only grease trap which meets HACCP for food safety), and eliminates grease trap pumping, saving thousands of dollars and avoids GHG emissions for clean air and cities. 

 

It saves your restaurant money, and solves problems. Can we help solve yours? Contact us to inquire how your restaurant can become a clean energy advocate in your community!

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