Oleo Recycling

What Oleo Recycling does

Oleo Recycling Limited is a UK-based, privately held subsidiary of SARIA — described as Europe's leading food chain recycling and renewable energy provider. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Doncaster, the company provides a fully integrated cooking oil supply, collection, and recycling service for commercial and industrial businesses, including food retailers and manufacturers, SMEs, food service operators, and public sector organisations across the United Kingdom, with the broader Oleo brand active in seven European countries (UK, Germany, Denmark, France, Poland, Spain, and Netherlands). The company employs 51–100 people and operates a national fleet plus processing plants and refineries.

The company's core technology is a proprietary eight-step transesterification process that converts collected waste cooking oils and fats into premium grade biodiesel and renewable bioenergy, achieving up to 85% lower greenhouse gas emissions versus fossil diesel and producing glycerol and methanol co-products which are recycled or reused. Service delivery relies on bespoke leak-proof bins, scheduled collections with a Bin Collect & Swap scheme, round-optimisation routing software, full traceability, and biosecurity guarantees under 'The Oleo Standard'.

Revenue is generated through usage-based collection and recycling service fees billed on volume of waste collected, transaction-fee sales of the resulting biodiesel and bioenergy into energy markets, and complementary cooking oil and fats supply delivered via sister company T.Quality. Go-to-market is B2B sales-led, quote-based, with no upfront fees and a trial period; marketing relies on the corporate website, email newsletter, and Twitter alongside direct phone and web quote requests. Sister companies EcoMotion and ReFood extend the offering into biodiesel production and food waste recycling respectively, enabling up to 50% cost savings versus landfill disposal.

Name

Oleo Recycling

Legal name

Oleo Recycling Limited

Website

https://oleorecycling.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Oleo Recycling, a UK subsidiary of SARIA, collects used cooking oil from food retailers, manufacturers, SMEs, and food service operators nationwide and converts it into premium biodiesel via a proprietary eight-step transesterification process.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Waste Management and Recycling Services

NAICS

Waste Collection (56211), Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Fats and Oils Refining and Blending (311225)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Grease Trap, Used Cooking Oil & FOG Services (Collection & Recycling) (EUAIAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Used Oil, Lubricants & Industrial Fluids Recovery/Recycling (IMAIAFAM), Organics-to-Energy & CHP from Biogas (On-site Power/Heat) (EUAIAEAG)

Keywords

• Cooking oil recycling
• Used cooking oil collection
• Biodiesel production
• Food waste recycling
• Renewable bioenergy

Headquarters

HQ city

Doncaster

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Cooking Oil Waste Collection and Recycling Services: Fee-based collection and recycling service for commercial and industrial businesses generating used cooking oil and fat waste. Service includes provision of bespoke leak-proof bins, scheduled collections, and full waste handling with traceability. Revenue generated through service fees based on volume collected.
2. Biodiesel and Bioenergy Production and Sales: The company converts collected waste cooking oil into premium grade biodiesel and renewable bioenergy through its transesterification process. Finished products are sold to energy markets, creating secondary revenue from the waste materials collected.
3. Cooking Oil and Fats Supply: Through sister company T.Quality, the company supplies high quality liquid and solid vegetable oils and beef dripping to food service businesses, creating a complementary revenue stream from new oil supply.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Oleo Recycling provides a fully integrated cooking oil waste collection and recycling service for businesses, using a dedicated fleet to swap filled bins for sanitised containers and transporting used cooking oil to its processing plants. The waste oil is converted into premium grade biodiesel and renewable bioenergy through an eight-step transesterification process. The company also supplies new cooking oils and fats via sister company T.Quality.

Product overview

Oleo Recycling operates as a fully integrated cooking oil supply and recycling service, combining two core offerings: (1) Oleo Services for the collection and recycling of used cooking oil waste through its proprietary eight-step transesterification process, and (2) Oil Supply for delivering premium cooking oils sourced via sister company T. Quality. The transesterification process converts collected waste oils into premium grade biodiesel and renewable bioenergy, while the co-product glycerol is supplied to anaerobic digestion through sister company ReFood. The Oleo Standard serves as the company's service guarantee, ensuring closed-loop, end-to-end handling with full traceability and biosecurity compliance. Oleo is part of SARIA, Europe's leading food chain recycling and renewable energy provider, and works with sister company EcoMotion for biodiesel production.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Oleo Services — Cooking Oil Waste Collection and Recycling Full-service cooking oil waste collection and recycling solution for commercial and industrial businesses generating used cooking oil. Includes bespoke leak-proof bins, scheduled collections by the dedicated Oleo fleet with a Bin Collect & Swap scheme, and full traceability from pickup through transesterification into biodiesel. Customers include food service operators (pubs, restaurants, takeaways), food retailers, manufacturers, and public sector food service organisations.
• Oil Supply — Cooking Oils and Fats Supply Premium cooking oil supply for food service businesses, providing a wide range of liquid and solid vegetable oils and beef dripping. Delivered direct to customer doors via T.Quality's fleet, meeting food supply legislation, with depot Call & Collect service also available. Targets the same food service customers as the recycling service.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 85% fewer greenhouse emissions compared to fossil diesel
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SARIAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSARIA is the parent company and Europe's leading specialist in food chain recycling and renewable energy. Oleo is a division/part of SARIA, leveraging their group capabilities in R&D, innovation, and operational excellence. This relationship provides Oleo with the backing of Europe's largest food chain recycler.
• EcoMotioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEcoMotion is a sister company that works alongside Oleo to produce biodiesel of the very highest quality from used cooking oil and waste fats. The companies operate a closed-loop system where Oleo's waste cooking oil feeds into EcoMotion's bioenergy production capabilities.
• T.QualitycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorT.Quality is a sister company and one of the UK's leading national foodservice suppliers and wholesalers of fats and oils. Established in the 1920s, T.Quality supplies liquid and solid vegetable oils and beef dripping directly to food service businesses. Through this partnership, Oleo customers can also source their premium cooking oil supply.
• ReFoodminorGTM or Marketing PartnerReFood is a sister company specialising in food waste recycling. Oleo markets ReFood's services to its customers as an additional offering, enabling customers to save up to 50% on disposal costs by using ReFood for food waste alongside Oleo's cooking oil recycling services.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Olleco: Olleco is one of the UK's largest collectors of used cooking oil, providing collection and recycling services to foodservice businesses and converting UCO into biodiesel. It is Oleo's most direct UK competitor with overlapping customer segments and an integrated collection-to-biodiesel model.
• Argent Energy: Argent Energy is a UK biodiesel producer that manufactures renewable diesel from waste oils and tallow. It overlaps with Oleo as both a UCO collector and a downstream biodiesel refiner, competing for feedstock and end markets.
• Brocklesby: Brocklesby is a UK-based specialist in cooking oil and food waste collection, supplying collected UCO to biodiesel producers. It directly competes with Oleo in the commercial UCO collection market and operates similar fleet-based collection services.

Regional players

• Quatra: Quatra is a Belgium-based collector and processor of used cooking oil and animal fats across Western Europe. It is a regional peer offering comparable UCO collection and biodiesel feedstock services in continental Europe rather than the UK.

Broad incumbents

• Greenergy: Greenergy is one of the UK's largest road fuel suppliers and a significant biodiesel blender/distributor. As a broad incumbent in UK biofuels, it competes with Oleo's downstream biodiesel sales while operating at a larger, more diversified scale.
• Verbio: Verbio is one of Europe's largest producers of biodiesel, bioethanol, and biomethane from agricultural and waste feedstocks. It competes with Oleo's sister company EcoMotion in European biodiesel markets and represents a large-scale incumbent in UCO-to-biodiesel.

Others

• SARIA UK: SARIA UK is the UK arm of Oleo's parent group, providing broader food chain recycling and rendering services. It is the corporate parent and shares operational infrastructure, technology platforms, and sister-company synergies with Oleo.
• T.Quality: T.Quality is a sister company and one of the UK's leading foodservice wholesalers of liquid and solid cooking oils and beef dripping. It operates as an adjacent/complementary business offering cooking oil supply to Oleo's customer base.
• EcoMotion: EcoMotion is a sister company that produces biodiesel from used cooking oil and waste fats. It is the downstream processing counterpart within the SARIA group, receiving feedstock from Oleo's UK collection operations.
• ReFood: ReFood is a sister company within the SARIA group specialising in food waste recycling and anaerobic digestion. It is an ecosystem partner that complements Oleo's cooking oil collection service and is co-marketed to Oleo's customer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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