About
Grease trap servicing
for efficient, compliant commercial kitchens
Keep your kitchen running safely and compliantly with Cleanaway’s professional grease trap collection, cleaning, and disposal services. Regular cleaning isn’t just good practice, it’s necessary to protect your plumbing, meet health regulations, and prevent costly disruptions to your operations.
Grease traps are essential for preventing fats, oils and grease (FOG) from entering your wastewater system. However they need to be serviced regularly to prevent drain blockages and odours, and maintain compliance with trade waste regulations.
Cleanaway’s grease trap services take the hassle out of managing FOG waste from your commercial kitchen. We service a range of industries including hospitality, retail and food manufacturing providing scheduled grease trap pumping and cleaning, as well as safe transport and EPA-compliant disposal of grease trap waste.
Food and fats wastewater
Includes wastewater containing fats, oils, grease, and food solids generated from commercial kitchens, restaurants, and food processing facilities.
Grease trap sediment and residue
Covers solid and semi-solid residues captured in grease traps, including settled food particles, sludge, and congealed fats removed during cleaning.
Our services
Grease trap services for every industry
Restaurants and cafés
Food service businesses that generate wastewater containing fats, oils, grease, and food solids from dishwashing, food preparation, and cooking equipment.
Hotels, food courts and catering venues
Large-scale kitchens in hotels, event centres, and catering facilities where frequent and high-volume food production leads to significant grease trap waste.
Schools, hospitals, and aged care facilities
Institutional kitchens that prepare meals daily and must manage grease trap waste responsibly to maintain hygiene and meet health regulations.
Food processing and manufacturing facilities
Commercial operations that handle, prepare, or package food products, producing wastewater and residue requiring compliant grease trap maintenance.
Comprehensive
Grease removal for restaurants and commercial kitchens
Cleanaway provides professional pumping of grease traps ranging in size from 45L to over 10,000L capacity. We can schedule these pump-outs to best suit your business needs – weekly, fortnightly, monthly or as required by regulations. We not only empty grease traps but also offer comprehensive grease trap cleaning and maintenance services, including:
- Washing and scraping of walls and baffles
- Inlet and outlet point inspections
- Deodorisation and replacement of lids
- Reporting of trap condition and abnormalities
- Trap audits to maintain service quality
Expertise
How our grease trap service works
Our vacuum tankers arrive onsite to pump out your grease trap safe and efficiently.
Process
What we do with your grease trap waste
Cleanaway collects grease trap waste from commercial kitchens, food courts, restaurants, supermarkets, food manufacturers, and service stations across Australia.
Your fats, oils and grease waste is then transported in GPS-trackable vehicles to a licensed, EPA-compliant facility where the water and grease are separated and treated. Wherever possible we aim to divert waste from landfill by recovering biosolids and other resources for recycling into soil conditioners. All other residual waste is safely disposed of according to environmental regulations.
Details
Grease trap service specifications
Service frequency
One-off, scheduled (monthly, quarterly, or as needed)
Fleet
Vacuum tankers with varying capacities for sites of all sizes
Tank sizes serviced
Small under-sink traps to large commercial interceptors
Compliance
EPA-licensed transport, tracking and disposal
Reporting
Digital manifests, certificates and waste tracking for audit purposes
Coverage
Metro, regional and remote areas Australia-wide
Output
What happens to grease trap waste
Once collected, grease trap waste is transported to licensed processing facilities where fats, oils, and grease are separated from water and solids. The recovered water is treated to meet environmental standards before being safely discharged or reused, while organic solids are processed for composting or energy recovery where possible. Any remaining residual material is disposed of in compliance with all regulatory requirements, ensuring the waste is managed safely, sustainably, and with minimal impact on the environment.
Our promise
Why choose Cleanaway
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A one-stop solution
We offer an expansive range of services, custom waste solutions and expert support to meet the waste management and resource recovery needs of Australian businesses, councils and industries of any size.
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Optimised waste management solutions
Our team of resource recovery professionals work closely with you to find the best waste management solution for your business, helping you achieve potential cost savings while working towards your sustainability goals.
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Streamlined services
We offer a total waste management solution, providing you with seamless customer service, one invoice and consistent, reliable services.
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Nationwide service you can count on
With a vast national network of specialised facilities and one of the largest waste collection fleets on Australian roads, we deliver efficient and reliable service across most of Australia.