Free Used Cooking Oil Pickup for Santa Clarita Restaurants

A kitchen at Valencia Town Center, a Main Street restaurant in Old Town Newhall and a lunch counter in a Valencia business park all fry on different schedules, from the steady lunch rush along Soledad Canyon Road in Canyon Country to a busy event night in Newhall. Each wants the oil gone on a day it can count on, with a bin that stays shut in between.

Santa Clarita restaurants pay nothing for Oil Guyz to pick up their used cooking oil, and there is no contract and no minimum. Each kitchen gets a locked bin sized to its back door, pumped in place, and a CDFA-compliant digital manifest emailed after every visit and kept two years. The oil is recycled into renewable fuel.

Call (310) 810-2488 or send the form on this page with the restaurant address. A person calls back the same business day to set bin size and the pickup day, and the first pickup follows in 3 to 5 business days.

Santa Clarita is the third-largest city in Los Angeles County, with 230,428 residents as of January 1, 2025 according to the city, and its kitchens gather in clusters instead of one downtown. Every kitchen that fries makes used cooking oil, and Oil Guyz picks it up free in each cluster. The biggest cluster is Valencia, where Valencia Town Center on Valencia Boulevard is a shopping mall with local eateries and an IMAX theater. Oil Guyz sets the locked bin at the kitchen's own back door or service area, pumps it in place, and works out access with the manager before the first visit.

Old Town Newhall is a different kind of stop. The city calls it Santa Clarita's premier Arts and Entertainment District, centered on Main Street, with barbecue, Mexican kitchens, sushi, wine bars, pubs and breweries. In 2026 the SENSES Block Party took over Main Street between Market Street and Sixth Street on the third Thursday of each month from April through September, 7 to 10 p.m., with live music, food trucks and an on-street bar hosted by local restaurants. On an event day a Main Street kitchen can ask for an early-day stop.

Canyon Country runs along Soledad Canyon Road, the community's main arterial, with Sierra Highway and Whites Canyon Road crossing it, and Vista Canyon has its own Metrolink station. Saugus kitchens line Bouquet Canyon Road and Railroad Avenue. The valley's business parks, including the Valencia Industrial Center and the Valencia Commerce Center, are part of nearly 30 million square feet of industrial and commercial space, per the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation, and Oil Guyz sets a business park kitchen's bin on the building's service or dock side. College of the Canyons runs its Valencia and Canyon Country campuses on a semester calendar (Fall 2026 runs August 24 to December 12), so a campus kitchen can call when the term starts or ends to adjust its pickup day or bin size. Pickup of used cooking oil works the same way for all of these kitchens: a free locked bin, a set day and a manifest after each visit.