Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup in the Bay Area

More Bay Area communities on the route

Burlingame:

Two downtown dining strips, Burlingame Avenue and Broadway, anchor the stops here, and the Bayfront hotel cluster on Old Bayshore near SFO adds high-volume banquet kitchens served in overnight windows. Free locked bin, no contract.

Concord:

Todos Santos Plaza kitchens, the Monument Boulevard corridor with its Salvadoran and Mexican fryer lines, and the Sun Valley Mall cluster share one scheduled loop, with Clayton Road and Diamond Boulevard rounding it out. Pickups are documented and free.

Cupertino:

One of the Bay Area's densest dim sum, boba, and hot pot clusters fills Cupertino Village off Wolfe Road, and the same run covers Main Street Cupertino, the Stevens Creek and De Anza corridors, and the Apple Park belt. Free service, no contract.

Daly City:

The Mission Street Filipino corridor, from the Top of the Hill down to John Daly Boulevard, produces some of the heaviest weekly fryer output on the route, which continues through Westlake and the Serramonte cluster on Hickey Boulevard.

Dublin:

Persian Square near the Dublin-Pleasanton BART station holds one of Northern California's largest Persian and Afghan restaurant concentrations, and stops there share the week with Hacienda Crossings, Village Parkway, and the East Dublin build-out along Tassajara Road.

Foster City:

Waterfront centers like Edgewater Place and the East Hillsdale corridor hold this planned city's kitchens, on the same mid-Peninsula loop as San Mateo next door.

Fremont:

Centerville's Afghan kebab houses and the biryani kitchens around Walnut Avenue anchor a weekly run down Mission Boulevard through Niles, Irvington, and Mission San Jose, with Warm Springs and the Innovation District on the eastern leg.

Livermore:

Downtown First Street's dining row and the wine-country tasting-room kitchens out on Tesla, Vasco, and Greenville Roads sit on one scheduled loop, along with the Lab corridor on East Avenue and the Premium Outlets. The service itself costs nothing.

Milpitas:

Milpitas Square's wok and fryer lines on Barber Lane run steady from open to close, and the schedule pairs that plaza with the Great Mall food hall, the Dixon Landing lunch counters, and McCarthy Ranch, slotted between Fremont and San Jose.

Mountain View:

Castro Street's walkable dining blocks get morning prep-window stops while the North Bayshore corporate kitchens along Shoreline Boulevard take the post-lunch slot, with the El Camino Real strip and San Antonio Center on the same loop.

Newark:

NewPark Mall's food court and the Cedar and Thornton corridor kitchens fold into the same southern Alameda County day that serves Fremont and Union City.

Palo Alto:

University Avenue and California Avenue chef-driven kitchens take prep-window pickups before lunch service, and the Stanford Research Park cafeterias along Page Mill Road get the quiet slot after it, with Town & Country Village in between.

Pleasanton:

Main Street's downtown restaurant row shares the loop with Hacienda Business Park campus kitchens off Hopyard Road, the Stoneridge Mall corridor, and the Fairgrounds catering surges along Valley Avenue during event weekends.

Redwood City:

Broadway and Courthouse Square dinner houses, the Samoan and Tongan kitchens on Middlefield Road, and the Seaport Boulevard corporate corridor all land on one scheduled run, with Sequoia Station and Veterans Boulevard in between.

San Leandro:

Taquerias, pupuserias, and Portuguese seafood houses line East 14th Street, while Bayfair Center chain operators and the Marina Boulevard lunch counters ride the same East Oakland to Hayward loop with free scheduled pickup.

San Mateo:

Downtown's B Street grid packs izakayas, ramen counters, and Korean BBQ houses into a few walkable blocks; the route also reaches 25th Avenue, Hayward Park, Hillsdale, and Bay Meadows, with stops timed around the Caltrain blocks.

Santa Clara:

Game days at Levi's Stadium and Convention Center weeks shape the pickup calendar, alongside steady weekly stops in the Mission District near Santa Clara University, along El Camino Real, and through Rivermark.

Sunnyvale:

Weekday lunch volume from the Moffett Park campuses sets the rhythm, with rear-alley stops behind the Murphy Avenue dining strip and the Korean BBQ and hand-pulled noodle kitchens along El Camino Real on the same weekly cycle.

Union City:

Chain operators at Union Landing, Filipino and Punjabi lunch counters along Whipple Road, and the family kitchens of the Decoto and Alvarado districts all sit on the southern Alameda County loop, with a free locked bin and no contract.

Walnut Creek:

Broadway Plaza and the downtown grid around Main and Locust pack one of the East Bay's strongest dining scenes, and stops are timed to the parking-garage quiet hours.