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Londinium Catering Supplies provide a range of high quality cooking oils and collect used cooking oil, UCO, from businesses large and small. All clients are provided with a UCO audit in line with Food Standards Agency regulations. The Government strongly supports the recovery of waste cooking oil as it underpins its strategies in both reducing dependency upon landfill sites as a means of waste disposal and reducing the use of fossil fuels for energy generation.

We operate within London and the Home Counties, although we can arrange delivery and collection services for the rest of the UK, so please enquire. We operate a weekly, fortnightly or monthly collection and delivery cycle, but if an urgent delivery is required we can provide a service within 48 hours. We collect all UCO at the same time as delivery of fresh oil products, which are all guaranteed GM free.

Londinium Catering Supplies provide you with a delivery note in receipt for your fresh oil delivery, as well as a Controlled Waste Transfer Note (CWTN). The CWTN will detail the name of the collector, the producer/caterer name & address, the date and the amount of UCO collected. This is issued to you in compliance with the 1991 'Duty of Care Act' and the Environmental Protection Act and provides proof of collection. You may be asked on request to provide a copy of this to your local Environmental Health Officer.

Waste cooking oil must not be poured down drains or sewers because this inevitably leads to blockages and odour or vermin problems and may also pollute watercourses leading to problems for wildlife. Such action could also result in potential prosecution. Nor should waste cooking oil be disposed of with the rest of the catering or kitchen waste because it may cause spillages leading to odour or pollution problems or waste contractors may refuse to remove it. Also, waste cooking oil should not be taken to household recycling centres (also known as Civic Amenity sites or CA sites) for disposal in engine oil banks. CA sites are not for commercial waste and placing cooking oil into an oil bank will render the entire contents of the drums unsuitable for recycling.

Guidance for disposal of waste cooking oil from catering premises and issued jointly by the Food Standards Agency, Cabinet Office, Environment Agency, and Defra, can be viewed here.

The Foods Standards Agency also answers a range of questions regarding the disposal of waste cooking oil here.