Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup in the Inland Empire

Restaurants across the Inland Empire, from Riverside and San Bernardino to Ontario, Corona, and Temecula, get a free locked bin, scheduled pickups, and a digital manifest after every collection. No contract, no fees.

Used cooking oil collection truck on a Riverside service route in the Inland Empire

5.0 on Google
From real restaurant reviews
CDFA-licensed
Recycled into clean fuel
Free locked bin
Delivered and placed for you
Manifest every pickup
Inspection-ready, 7-year records

Free used cooking oil pickup

Restaurant Grease and Fryer Oil Pickup Across the Inland Empire

Used cooking oil pickup in the Inland Empire usually breaks the same way. The hauler who was reliable for three months stops answering, the bin behind the kitchen fills past the lid, and when an inspector asks for your waste oil records you find you were never given any. That question is coming: Riverside's Environmental Compliance staff inspect every restaurant in the city and check waste oil containers and records, and Ontario expects four years of hauling records with manifest numbers on them. Whether you run a taqueria on Magnolia Avenue in Riverside, a Korean barbecue in Chino Hills, or a wine country kitchen in Temecula, the problem is identical: the oil keeps coming, and the paperwork has to be right.

The fix is simple. Oil Guyz places a free locked bin sized to your volume, right where you store oil today. The driver pumps it out where it sits; we never swap containers, and if you already use barrels or caddies we pump those in place too. After every pickup you receive a digital manifest. Every pickup runs under a CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease transporter license, and the manifest you receive meets the CDFA recordkeeping rule (3 CCR 1180.24). The service is free because the oil itself has value: a licensed renderer turns it into biodiesel feedstock and animal feed ingredients, and that is what pays us. No contract, no monthly fee, no per-pickup charge.

Compliance in the Inland Empire is local. There is no single FOG agency. Riverside restaurants answer to the city's Public Works Environmental Compliance Section, Ontario kitchens to the Municipal Utilities Company's FOG program, Rancho Cucamonga to Cucamonga Valley Water District, Temecula and Murrieta to Eastern Municipal Water District, and San Bernardino to the Municipal Water Department's Environmental Control Section. The rules differ city to city, from interceptor sizing to how long records must stay on site, three years in Riverside and Fontana, four in Ontario. What every agency has in common is that it expects proof your grease and oil left the building lawfully. A manifest in your inbox after every pickup is that proof.

Get Free Pickup in Inland Empire

Free locked bin · No contract · No minimum. Service across Inland Empire starts this week.

5.0 on GoogleCDFA-Licensed

Prefer to talk? Call (909) 500-2488

Case study

The City Would Not Let Them Open Without an Oil Pickup Agreement

Mr. You Chinese Food, a new restaurant in San Jacinto, was ready to open, but the city required proof of a used cooking oil pickup service, backed by a signed service agreement, before it would sign off on the permit.

The problem

The permit to open was stuck. The city would not sign off until the restaurant could show a used cooking oil pickup service was in place, with a signed service agreement to prove it.

The same-day fix

The owner called Oil Guyz. The team jumped on it the same day and got her the signed service agreement, which she submitted to the city that same day.

The result

The city approved the opening the same day, and the collection bin was placed the next day.

“Prompt response from Joey. Great service with problem solving. Highly recommended!”

Brenda Wu · Google review

Why Oil Guyz

The typical hauler vs Oil Guyz

Same pickup. A very different experience for your Inland Empire kitchen.

Typical hauler

Oil Guyz

Cost to you

Pickup fees, or your oil for nothing

Free pickup, free container

Contract

Long-term lock-in

No contract, cancel anytime

Missed pickup

Voicemail and excuses

A real person makes it right

Compliance paperwork

You chase the manifest

Emailed after every pickup, 7-yr records kept

Who answers

A call center, or no one

A real person who knows your kitchen

Why now

A health or CDFA check can ask for your manifest any day, and switching costs you nothing. There is no contract to break and no gap in service. Get set up before your bin overflows or an inspector asks.

Get Free Pickup in Inland Empire

Everything included

Everything your Inland Empire kitchen gets, free

One plan that takes used cooking oil off your plate for good. Most haulers charge for pickup or lock you into a contract. Yours does neither.

Costs you nothing

Free pickup, free bin, free paperwork. We are paid for the oil, not by you.

Reliable, on your schedule

Scheduled pickups on the cadence you set. A real person owns your route.

Inspection-proof

A CDFA-compliant manifest after every pickup. 7-year records kept.

Recurring scheduled pickupsWeekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. You set the cadence.Free
A commercial collection containerDelivered and placed where it works for your kitchen.$150 to buyFree
Compliant digital manifest after every pickupCDFA Title 3 §1180-compliant, emailed the moment your container is serviced.Free
7 years of records, kept for youProducing history for an inspection takes seconds.Free
A real person who answersNo phone-tag, no no-show black hole.Free
No contract, month to monthCancel anytime. No penalty, no removal fee.Free

Total cost to you

No contract. Cancel anytime.

Typically $150+ to set up elsewhere, plus monthly fees

It's free because we are paid for the oil, not by you. We recycle it into clean fuel, so pickup and the bin cost you nothing.

Claim My Free Bin + Pickup

Free sizing tool

Right-size your free bin in seconds

Tell us how much oil your kitchen goes through and we will show you the bin and pickup schedule that fits, no overflowing bins, no wasted trips.

Free bin, sized right

What size bin does your kitchen need?

We aim to fill it 75 to 90% in a month, so one monthly pickup keeps it from overflowing.

1. Pick the closest match

2. Used oil you make per week

gal / week

3. Where will it sit?

Monthly pickup

130-gallon outdoor bin

~83% full each month

A 130-gallon outdoor bin lands around 83% full over a month, so one pickup a month keeps it from ever overflowing.

Get my free bin (909) 500-2488

This is an estimate to get you close. We confirm the right bin when we place it, and if your volume changes we swap you to a better size at no charge.

Local compliance

Inland Empire FOG and Grease Rules for Restaurants

Verified 2026-07-04

No single agency regulates FOG across the Inland Empire; the agency that owns your sewer sets the rules. That means the City of Riverside's Environmental Compliance Section in Riverside, Ontario Municipal Utilities Company in Ontario, Cucamonga Valley Water District in Rancho Cucamonga, Eastern Municipal Water District in Temecula and Murrieta, and city utilities in San Bernardino, Fontana, Chino Hills, and Corona. Wherever you cook, three duties repeat: keep a properly sized grease interceptor maintained, use licensed haulers, and keep hauling records on site for three to four years. The state adds one more: used cooking oil may only leave your kitchen with a CDFA-registered transporter, with a manifest for every pickup.

Who regulates grease from your kitchen

City of Riverside Public Works, Environmental Compliance Section

Owns the Riverside sewer system and inspects every restaurant in the city under Municipal Code Chapter 14.12.

Official program page

City of Ontario Municipal Utilities Company (OMUC)

Runs Ontario's FOG Source Control Program: FSE permits, interceptor rules, and the licensed grease hauler requirement.

Official program page

Cucamonga Valley Water District

Sewer provider for Rancho Cucamonga; permits and monitors food service establishments through its Industrial Waste Division.

Official program page

Eastern Municipal Water District

Sewer provider for Temecula and Murrieta; runs the federally mandated Source Control pretreatment program.

Official program page

San Bernardino Municipal Water Department, Environmental Control Section

Runs San Bernardino's sewer pretreatment program and issues the city's Food Service User Permits.

Official program page

California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)

Registers used cooking oil transporters statewide, licenses renderers, and requires a manifest on every pickup.

Official program page

What inspectors expect from a Inland Empire restaurant

Get a written interceptor determination before discharging in RiversideRiverside Municipal Code 14.12.275, 14.12.260
Riverside restaurants may not discharge wastewater to the city sewer without first receiving a written determination from the Director on interceptor requirements, and complying with it. Interceptors are sized to the Uniform Plumbing Code with a 750 gallon minimum, so build the determination into any build-out or change of use. Source: City of Riverside Sewer System Management Plan (2025)
Expect routine restaurant inspections in RiversideRiverside Municipal Code 14.12.215
Riverside's Environmental Compliance staff inspect every restaurant in the city on a regular basis, checking drains, grease interceptors, waste oil containers, and records against local ordinances. If your oil hauler leaves no paperwork, that gap surfaces during the inspection, not just in your filing cabinet. Source: City of Riverside Sewer System Management Plan (2025)
Install a gravity grease interceptor in Ontario if you run fryers or grillsCity of Ontario FOG Control Program Manual (Jan 2025)
Ontario requires food service establishments installing higher-risk cooking equipment, including deep fryers, grills, griddles, stoves, and kettles, to install a gravity grease interceptor. Interceptors follow the 20 percent rule: once captured grease and solids displace more than 20 percent of capacity, measured by an approved dipping method, pumping is due. Source: City of Ontario FOG Control Program Manual (Jan 2025)
Use a licensed, permitted grease hauler in OntarioOntario Municipal Code Section 6-7.404
Under Ontario Municipal Code Section 6-7.404, every facility with a grease interceptor must use a licensed grease hauler permitted for pumping services, and collected grease and oils must be removed and disposed of lawfully. The city publishes a list of licensed haulers in Appendix E of its FOG Manual, without endorsing any of them. Source: City of Ontario FOG Control Program Manual (Jan 2025)
Keep four years of waste records in Ontario, manifest numbers includedCity of Ontario FOG Control Program Manual Section 4.1
Ontario food service establishments must retain records for all waste and wastewater generated, including pretreatment maintenance logs, for at least four years. Hauling records must show the manifest number, the hauler's name and address, the volume hauled, the date, and the receiving facility. A pickup with no manifest cannot satisfy this rule. Source: City of Ontario FOG Control Program Manual (Jan 2025)
Chino Hills requires an outdoor grease interceptor at every food service establishmentCity of Chino Hills form CDBD_1012 (Requirements for Grease Interceptors)
Grease interceptors are required for all food service establishments located in Chino Hills. The minimum interceptor size is 500 gallons, the maximum is 2,500 gallons, and every interceptor must be installed outside the structure being served. Confirm sizing with the city before any kitchen build-out or remodel. Source: City of Chino Hills Grease Interceptor Requirements
Fontana kitchens route wastewater through a two-compartment 750 gallon interceptorFontana Municipal Code Section 23-163
Fontana requires restaurants and other food processing facilities to direct all wastes from floor drains, sinks, waste container wash racks, and dishwashers through a two-compartment gravity separation interceptor. Minimum fluid capacity is 750 gallons, or the Uniform Plumbing Code Appendix H sizing if that comes out greater. Source: Fontana Municipal Code Chapter 23 (city document)
Apply for an FSE sewer use permit in Rancho CucamongaCVWD Municipal Code, Title 6
All new and existing food service establishments in Rancho Cucamonga must apply for a Food Service Establishment sewer use permit from Cucamonga Valley Water District, which runs a permitting and monitoring program covering more than 300 establishments. Not every FSE ends up needing a permit, but every FSE must apply to keep water and sewer service. Source: Cucamonga Valley Water District FSE Permits

Your used cooking oil options, honestly

Free pickup by a CDFA-registered transporter

Best option

The fully compliant path for a commercial kitchen. California law makes it unlawful to transport inedible kitchen grease, which includes used cooking oil, without CDFA registration, and registered transporters must carry required liability insurance. Pickup is typically free because the oil has value as biodiesel feedstock, and you get a manifest for your records.

Get free pickup

Drop-off at a CDFA-licensed collection center

Allowed, but

CDFA publishes a public list of licensed collection centers alongside registered transporters and renderers. These are legitimate destinations, but they exist mainly for transporters and self-haul edge cases. A restaurant hauling its own barrels across the Inland Empire is impractical, adds liability, and still leaves documentation questions at inspection time.

Paying a licensed grease hauler

Allowed, but

Interceptor and trap pumping is separate from used cooking oil collection and usually costs money. In Ontario, any facility with a grease interceptor must use a licensed hauler permitted for pumping services, and the city publishes a hauler list in its FOG Manual without endorsement. Many kitchens pair paid trap service with free oil pickup.

Never the drain, and never the dumpster

Never

Pouring fryer oil into a drain or trash bin violates local sewer codes. Fontana, for example, can levy civil penalties up to $25,000 per violation per day on users who violate an administrative order to comply with its sewer rules, and willful violations are a misdemeanor. Cool-and-trash guidance is residential advice, not a commercial option.

Which agency covers your city

San Bernardino: San Bernardino Municipal Water Department's Environmental Control Section runs the pretreatment program and issues Food Service User Permits.
Riverside: City of Riverside Public Works Environmental Compliance Section enforces Municipal Code Chapter 14.12 and inspects every restaurant.
Temecula: Eastern Municipal Water District is the sewer provider and runs the Source Control pretreatment program for Temecula kitchens.
Murrieta: Sewer service is Eastern Municipal Water District; its Source Control program and Wastewater Control Ordinance apply to Murrieta kitchens.
Chino Hills: Food service establishments participate in the City of Chino Hills FOG Inspection Program; wastewater is treated regionally by IEUA.
Rancho Cucamonga: Cucamonga Valley Water District provides sewer service; all food service establishments must apply for an FSE sewer use permit.
Fontana: The City of Fontana enforces Municipal Code Chapter 23 sewer rules; wastewater is treated regionally by IEUA.
Ontario: Ontario Municipal Utilities Company runs the FOG Source Control Program under the city's January 2025 FOG Control Program Manual.
Corona: The City of Corona Utilities Department runs its own sewer system and pretreatment program under Municipal Code Chapter 13.08.

Primary sources (last verified 2026-07-04)

Rules change. We re-check these pages on a regular cycle, but your permit, your lease, and your inspector always win. When in doubt, call the agency listed for your city, or call us and we will point you to the right office.

What Inland Empire kitchens say about Oil Guyz

Verbatim Google reviews from the restaurants we serve. On time, genuinely free, and the compliance paperwork is always handled.

5.0on Google

“These dudes really bailed me out of a tough situation. My previous oil collection service had been really screwing me over. Spent 4 weeks of unanswered phone calls, texts, and empty promises with a company we've been using for two years just to get a used oil recepticle, all to no avail. We were sitting on 6 fryers with of oil I that I had nowhere to put. Called Joey and The Oil Guyz and he got me set up just a few hours later. Used oil container, service agreement, answered all of my questions. We're running a very odd program where our schedule is all over the place, so having a "regular" pick up schedule is out of the question. We worked out a way for quick/easy retrieval in about 5 minutes. Can't recommend these guys enough.”

Myk Espinoza

Oakland Ballers · Oakland, CA · Google review

“Joey took care of our needs quickly, efficiently and professionally. I highly reccoemnd his service to anyone!”

Kengo Kido

Google review

“Prompt response from Joey. Great service with problem solving. Highly recommended!”

Brenda Wu

Google review

“Fast and great to work with!”

Camille Bamford

Google review

“Fast efficient service”

John Kim

Google review

“These dudes really bailed me out of a tough situation. My previous oil collection service had been really screwing me over. Spent 4 weeks of unanswered phone calls, texts, and empty promises with a company we've been using for two years just to get a used oil recepticle, all to no avail. We were sitting on 6 fryers with of oil I that I had nowhere to put. Called Joey and The Oil Guyz and he got me set up just a few hours later. Used oil container, service agreement, answered all of my questions. We're running a very odd program where our schedule is all over the place, so having a "regular" pick up schedule is out of the question. We worked out a way for quick/easy retrieval in about 5 minutes. Can't recommend these guys enough.”

Myk Espinoza

Oakland Ballers · Oakland, CA · Google review

“Joey took care of our needs quickly, efficiently and professionally. I highly reccoemnd his service to anyone!”

Kengo Kido

Google review

“Prompt response from Joey. Great service with problem solving. Highly recommended!”

Brenda Wu

Google review

“Fast and great to work with!”

Camille Bamford

Google review

“Fast efficient service”

John Kim

Google review

Coverage

Cities we serve in Inland Empire

One Inland Empire route, 13 cities. The same free pickup, free locked bin, and compliance manifest everywhere on the route.

Chino Hills Corona Fontana Murrieta Ontario Rancho Cucamonga Riverside San Bernardino TemeculaChino

More Inland Empire communities on the route

Hemet:: Pickup routes cover Downtown Hemet, East Hemet and West Hemet.
Redlands:: Pickup routes cover Downtown Redlands, State Street District and Orange Street Corridor.
Upland:: Pickup routes cover Historic Downtown Upland, Colonies Crossroads and San Antonio Heights.

Inland Empire local line:

(909) 500-2488

Oil Guyz Service Area in Inland Empire County

We provide free used cooking oil pickup and recycling to restaurants throughout Inland Empire County and surrounding areas.

Open in Google Maps

Restaurant Outside Inland Empire?

Oil Guyz is expanding fast. Drop your state and city and we will email you the moment we light up your area.

No used cooking oil pickup in your area yet?

Tell us your city. We’ll text you the day free pickups reach you.

Answers

Used cooking oil pickup in Inland Empire, FAQ

Yes. We are paid by the licensed renderer that buys the oil, not by the restaurant. Used cooking oil becomes biodiesel feedstock and animal feed ingredients, so it has real commodity value, and that value covers the bin, the pickups, and the paperwork. There is no contract, no monthly fee, and no per-pickup charge for kitchens across the Inland Empire, whether you fry in Riverside, Ontario, or Temecula. If a hauler is charging you to take fryer oil away, you are paying for something the market already pays for.

Most kitchens get their first pickup within a week of signing up. If a bin is overflowing or an inspection is coming, call us; we often make it out the same day. Phones are answered around the clock, and a team member picks up, so you are not leaving voicemails while oil sits by the back door. Signup is a short call or form: your address, roughly how much oil you produce, and where you store it today. From there we place the free locked bin and set a pickup cadence that matches your fryer volume.

You get a free locked bin sized to your volume, placed where you store oil today. The driver pumps it out right where it sits, so the bin never leaves your property and there is nothing to wheel around or exchange. We never swap containers. Already using barrels or caddies? We pump those in place too. A locked bin matters in the Inland Empire because oil theft is real: CDFA built its manifest rules partly to combat widespread used cooking oil theft, which the state found likely exceeded 5,400 incidents in a single year.

Licensed renderers buy it. Collected oil goes to our partner renderer, where it becomes biodiesel feedstock and animal feed ingredients; nothing goes to landfill. That resale value is why pickup is free for restaurants. CDFA keeps a public online list of registered transporters, collection centers, and licensed renderers, so you can verify anyone who offers to take your oil before they touch it. Kitchens producing roughly 250 or more gallons a month can ask about a rebate when they sign up.

Almost certainly, and the specifics depend on your city. Chino Hills requires an interceptor at every food service establishment, sized between 500 and 2,500 gallons and installed outside the building. Riverside requires a written determination from the Director before you discharge to the sewer, with a 750 gallon minimum interceptor. Ontario ties the requirement to equipment: install a deep fryer, grill, griddle, stove, or kettle and a gravity grease interceptor comes with it. Fontana requires a two-compartment interceptor with at least 750 gallons of capacity. Check with your sewer agency before any build-out, because plan approval usually comes first.

Hauling and maintenance records, above all. Riverside's Environmental Compliance staff inspect every restaurant in the city, checking drains, interceptors, waste oil containers, and records, and Riverside requires waste hauling records to stay on site for at least three years. Ontario goes further: four years of records, and hauling records must include the manifest number, hauler name and address, volume, date, and receiving facility. Every Oil Guyz pickup runs under a CDFA Inedible Kitchen Grease transporter license, and the digital manifest you receive meets the CDFA recordkeeping rule (3 CCR 1180.24), so the record the inspector wants is already in your inbox.

No. Sewer codes across the Inland Empire prohibit it, and the penalties are serious. In Fontana, an industrial user who violates an administrative order to comply with the sewer code can face civil penalties up to $25,000 per violation per day, and willful violations are a misdemeanor carrying fines and even jail time. Riverside also prohibits grease-dissolving additives and considers an interceptor out of compliance once floating material, sediment, oil, or grease cut its capacity by more than 25 percent. The cool-it-and-trash-it advice you may have seen is residential guidance; a commercial kitchen needs documented, licensed collection.

Yes. California law makes it unlawful to transport inedible kitchen grease, the legal term that covers used cooking oil, without registering with CDFA, and registered transporters must carry at least $2 million in liability insurance ($1 million for single small-vehicle operators). CDFA publishes a public lookup of registered transporters, collection centers, and renderers, so you can check any company before it hauls your oil. A registered transporter also completes a manifest for each collection, with your copy delivered at pickup or within 45 days, and keeps its copies for two years, available to CDFA and law enforcement on demand.

Get Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup. First Stop in 3 to 5 Days.

Picture the bin that never overflows and the compliant digital manifest already in your inbox. Used cooking oil pickup is free because we are paid for the oil, not by you. Every week you wait is another overflowing bin and another gap in your records. Free locked bin, confirmed in 24 hours and dropped this week, first pickup in 3 to 5 business days, no contract, cancel anytime. New routes are scheduled in the order they come in, so get on the list today.

Get My Free Pickup (714) 880-4788

Or call (714) 880-4788 and talk to a real person today.