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American Bio Source is proud to serve our customers and help the restaurant industry become more sustainable through our used cooking oil recycling.
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DALLAS — Did you know you’re not supposed to put your used cooking oils down the drain? Doing so can lead to a grease blockage in your pipes that no amount of hot water can unclog.
The Defend Your Drains North Texas campaign aims to educate residents of the harmful effects of putting several products down the drain that don’t belong. During the pandemic, there’s been an uptick in non-flushable wipes getting flushed down the toilet. Well now, during the holiday season, more cooking equals more fats, oils and grease produced in the kitchen.
Now until January 4, the “Holiday Grease Roundup,” is available to residents in more than 30 municipalities of North Texas. They can drop off used oils that will then be recycled into a valuable resource, biodiesel, which helps to reduce landfill waste.
Our professional trained staff work with your business to get the job done right and timely. We work with businesses of all sizes from mom and pop food trucks to global food processing factories and chain restaurants. You can count on our team to get it done for you right.
Scott is our featured team member, who leads the way installing new equipment such as our indoor systems and maintains the inventory of containers at all of our service locations. ..
When he isn’t at one of your sites, he might even be under one of our trucks performing important preventative maintenance or fabricating new equipment for the biodiesel plant.
American Bio Source got the keys to the plant in 2014, after another company went out of business at the site in 2008.
American Bio Source has been recycling restaurant oil and grease in the region since 2010 and relocated its recycling business to Denton. But it hasn’t been producing the fuel itself.
Company owner Walter Dobson says he’s been working for several years to retool the plant to current standards for environmental permitting.
“The design requirements changed,” Dobson said. “It could never produce biodiesel in its previous configuration.”
The last biodiesel manufacturer in the Dallas-Fort Worth region recently closed, although there are other manufacturers located around the state, Dobson said.
He watches the rest of the industry and tries to learn from their mistakes.
The previous plant owner had an agreement to sell the Denton city government at least 300,000 gallons of biodiesel each year at a set price.
But the previous plant owner also bought the grease it recycled, making it hard to control supply chain costs, Dobson said.
American Bio Source sends out trucks to pick up grease from hundreds of area restaurants.
In addition, many other producers are dependent on federal tax credits to stay profitable, he said.
The company leases the plant and the property from the city. The city’s solid waste director, Ethan Cox, said the lease contract does have terms if the company starts making the fuel again.
Specifically, the contract provides the city a per-gallon royalty for any biodiesel manufactured in Denton and sold.
“But it doesn’t require them to manufacture biodiesel,” Cox said.
Dobson said the lease expires at the end of this year and talks have begun for its renewal.
PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE can be reached at 940-566-6881.
Click here to read the original article at the Denton Record Chronicle
