GLENDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — A West Valley family is celebrating over two decades in business while also pushing for sustainability in the commercial oil distribution business.
SK Oil Sales, based in Glendale, bottles up a whopping 45,000 galloons of oil per day; a mixture of 75% canola and 25% olive oil.
The company promotes sustainability by recycling used oil through a five-filtered system.
“We want restaurants to no longer use box oil. So many of them are using the boxes, and they don’t need to. That box and plastic goes to the dump, and it’s taking up space that it shouldn’t,” said SK Oil Sales President Matt McMahon.
McMahon says each box weighs 1.5 pounds and with over 9,000 restaurants in the Phoenix area, the waste begins to build up quickly.
“Can you imagine the average restaurant probably throws away, let’s say, five pounds a day in in garbage? That’s a lot of poundage that we could eliminate in the state of Arizona if people stop using box oil,” he explained.
In addition, the company uses equipment to deliver, extract and filter the oil, which is all invented in-house and made in the United States. While also delivering bulk oil, they also ship products to larger grocery stores.
SK Oil Sales has hundreds of customers in Arizona, including numerous casinos and State Farm Stadium. In total, the company collects nearly 4 million pounds of recycled used cooking oil every year.
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