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We Buy Cooking Oil
If your used cooking oil has the specifications according to the Jacobsen, we will pay top market price. If not, we will still give you a rebate.

 
 
 
Preventative Maintenance
In order to prevent costly cleaning and plumbing issues, we provide you with a custom preventative maintenance schedule before any problems occurs.
We offer hydro jetting, video inspection, pressure washing, and much more.
FOG Recycling
LEND Environmental is dedicated to saving the environment by finding sustainable ways to support the food production, restaurants, schools, hotels, Government facilities, commissaries, hospitals, casinos, and stadiums. Our system provides a cost-effective disposal process that reduces landfilling practices while also generating a clean advanced biofuel.
Animal By-Product Recycling (Fat & Bone Services)
We collect by-products from meat and poultry processing plants, supermarkets, and butcher shops. As with all our services, our animal by-product recycling is designed to be environmentally friendly and to eliminate land waste. We provide 32-gallon or 45-gallon containers. Reliable daily and weekly services with emergency service provided as needed.
Disposal Facility
We welcome all pumpers that haul commercial grease trap waste. If you are experiencing a dire shortage of FOG processing solutions and receiving stations are currently limiting disposal options and raising tipping fees, leaving you waiting in long lines or driving long distances to find a place where you can dump your loads. Look no longer!
Grease Trap Pumping
Our team consist of professionals that can provide you with information when it comes to properly caring for your grease gravity device. Choosing us, you are guaranteed to receive the best service quality and competitive pricing structure in the industry.
ABOUT

LEND Environmental, located in Los Angeles, CA, is committed to inspiring global transformation by promoting healthy growth & sustainability within our community by partnering with local restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals, casinos, and other industrial kitchens to refine used cooking oil and supply this to biodiesel producers. We pride ourselves on being sustainable by recycling brown and yellow grease into a variety of valuable products.

Our refining facility in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA helps to alleviate the nation’s problem of over-burdened landfills by recycling millions of gallons of used cooking oil that would otherwise be disposed of as waste. We utilize state-of-the-art technology to treat process water while complying with all odor abatement and air pollution regulations to preserve a clean and safe environment.

 

USED COOKING OIL RECYCLING PROCESS

We begin our process by screening incoming material to remove contaminants and then heating the oil to remove fine particles. We then transfer the oil to our heated settling tanks where the water and emulsion are separated. Oils and any remaining solids from the emulsion go to a centrifuge, where the oils are separated out.

There’s quite a bit of chemistry involved in transforming used cooking oil into biodiesel, in a process known as transesterification. Used cooking oil (UCO) is made up of chains of fatty acids held together by glycerol molecules. Methanol breaks those chains of fatty acids apart. The corrosive, alkaline lye (sodium hydroxide, although you can also use potassium hydroxide) breaks the glycerol (a heavy alcohol) off those chains and the methanol (a light alcohol) in turn takes the place of the glycerol, leaving shorter, lighter, more combustible molecules. The result is an oil that burns well as a direct replacement for petroleum-based diesel fuel, with 12 to 15 percent glycerin left over at the bottom of the tank. The lye acts only as a catalyst in this case, and isn’t consumed in the process.

On the other hand, brown grease, like we get out the back door of restaurants (either grease trap or inceptor), is somewhat acidic because it has free fatty acids, which are produced during heating and cooking. Fortunately, that acidity is neutralized by the extremely alkaline lye essential to the transesterification. Adding lye converts free fatty acids to a form of soap, most of which will drain out with the glycerin. The remaining soap is removed in the wash. Of course, we have to be sure that the amount of alkaline lye is just enough to counterbalance the acidity, or we wind up with poor-quality fuel.

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    DISPOSAL FACILITY

    13151 San Fernando Rd Sylmar, CA 91342

    5241 Schirlls St, Las Vegas, NV 89118

    PHONE: 818.698.4252
    FAX: 844.813.5874
    After Hours: 888.446.0844

    We are available 24/7

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