The grease recycling facility is here. Siloam Springs restaurants whose grease is pumped by Ozark Grease Pros have their waste processed in this city — oil extracted, water treated to ADEQ standards, recycled output produced. NWA’s only licensed grease recycling plant is a Siloam Springs operation.
Siloam Springs Facility
Oil Extracted & Recycled
ADEQ-Compliant Discharge
Only Facility in NWA
For most NWA restaurants, ‘where does my grease go after it’s pumped?’ has an answer that involves a long drive — Tulsa, Little Rock, or another out-of-market disposal site. For Siloam Springs restaurants using Ozark Grease Pros, the answer is different: the grease stays in Siloam Springs. Our licensed processing and recycling facility is located here, making Siloam Springs the grease management hub for all of Northwest Arkansas.
This isn’t just a logistical convenience. For Siloam Springs restaurants, it has practical implications across compliance documentation, environmental accountability, and what it means to be served by a company whose entire operation — pumping equipment, processing facility, and team — is local.
What ‘facility in Siloam Springs’ means for local restaurant operators: Zero-mile disposal chain: Waste pumped from your Siloam Springs restaurant goes to a facility in the same city. No cross-state haul. No long-distance disposal logistics. Locally verifiable compliance documentation: The manifest disposal destination is a Siloam Springs address. The City of Siloam Springs Water Department can verify the facility exists and is licensed. The compliance chain is locally auditable. Shorter logistics = faster scheduling: Service, disposal, and account management all run from Siloam Springs. Emergency calls to a local operation get faster response than a regional operator dispatching from another market. Community environmental investment: A licensed, ADEQ-regulated grease processing facility represents local environmental infrastructure. FOG waste from Siloam Springs kitchens is managed locally rather than externalized to another region. |
When Ozark Grease Pros pumps a grease trap from any Siloam Springs restaurant, the waste follows this sequence at our local facility:
Processing Stage
What Happens at Our Siloam Springs Facility
Receiving & manifest matching
Incoming load matched to the originating manifest from your Siloam Springs restaurant. Volume confirmed. Chain-of-custody record established locally.
Gravity separation
Waste enters the separation system — FOG rises to the surface, wastewater occupies the middle zone, solids settle to the bottom. Initial phase separation begins.
Oil extraction
The separated oil fraction is extracted and concentrated. The recoverable grease from your Siloam Springs restaurant trap is separated from the water phase for downstream recycling.
Water treatment
The water phase is treated to reduce BOD, TSS, and FOG concentration to Arkansas ADEQ pre-treatment discharge standards. This is what makes compliant discharge possible from a Siloam Springs-based facility.
ADEQ-compliant discharge
Treated water meeting ADEQ discharge standards is released compliantly — not raw wastewater, not a field dump. A licensed Siloam Springs facility operation.
Recycled oil output
Extracted oil is directed to downstream recycling — primarily biodiesel feedstock production. Your Siloam Springs restaurant's grease trap waste becomes a component of renewable fuel.
The Ozark Grease Pros facility in Siloam Springs serves not just local restaurants but the entire NWA corridor. Pumping companies operating in Fayetteville, Springdale, Bentonville, and Rogers bring waste to Siloam Springs rather than hauling to Tulsa — because our facility is 60–100 miles closer for most NWA operators, and our $0.15/gal tipping fee makes the economics work.
That regional role reinforces the local significance. Siloam Springs is not just where one grease trap company happens to be based — it’s where the grease management infrastructure for all of Northwest Arkansas is anchored. When a restaurant in Fayetteville or Bentonville pumps their trap and the waste arrives at a licensed disposal site, that site is in Siloam Springs.
For Siloam Springs restaurant operators, this regional centrality is a competitive advantage that no other city in NWA has: your service provider is the same company that manages grease waste for the entire region. The expertise, the equipment capacity, and the processing infrastructure are all concentrated here.
Siloam Springs sits in the headwaters region of the Illinois River watershed — one of the most significant waterways in western Arkansas and northeastern Oklahoma. The Illinois River and its tributaries are sensitive environmental systems that have historically faced water quality challenges from agricultural and municipal discharge in this region.
Proper commercial kitchen FOG management is a meaningful contributor to watershed protection in this specific geography. Grease trap waste that is improperly disposed of — dumped in fields, discharged without treatment, or released through sewer overflow events — has a direct pathway to the Illinois River system through the local watershed. The fact that Siloam Springs has a licensed, ADEQ-regulated grease processing facility that treats wastewater to discharge standards before release means that commercial kitchen FOG waste from this area is being managed in a way that is protective of local waterways.
What licensed local processing means for the Siloam Springs watershed:
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For Siloam Springs food service operators, the compliance value of having a local licensed facility on the manifest is significant. When a health inspector or City of Siloam Springs Water Department representative requests FOG compliance documentation, the manifest names a Siloam Springs, AR address as the disposal destination — an address within city limits that the local authority can verify is a licensed, ADEQ-regulated grease processing facility.
That local verifiability is a stronger compliance record than a manifest naming a Tulsa or Little Rock facility that the Siloam Springs authority has no direct knowledge of. The chain of custody is locally auditable from end to end: the grease trap is in Siloam Springs, the service is by a Siloam Springs company, the waste goes to a Siloam Springs facility, and the regulatory documentation is under Arkansas ADEQ — the same state authority that oversees the City of Siloam Springs water infrastructure.
Our licensed grease processing and recycling facility is located in Siloam Springs, AR — the only facility of its kind in Northwest Arkansas. All waste we pump from Siloam Springs restaurants and from NWA accounts across our 80-mile service radius is processed here in Siloam Springs.
Waste from Siloam Springs accounts is transported directly to our Siloam Springs facility for processing — gravity separation, oil extraction for recycling, water treatment to Arkansas ADEQ discharge standards, and compliant discharge. Oil extracted from your restaurant’s trap becomes biodiesel feedstock. Nothing leaves the state unlicensed.
Yes. Our Siloam Springs facility is the regional disposal site for grease waste from across the 80-mile NWA service area — including Fayetteville, Springdale, Bentonville, Rogers, and border communities in Oklahoma and Missouri. Other grease haulers also bring waste to our Siloam Springs facility at a tipping fee of $0.15/gal.
The manifest from every Ozark Grease Pros service call names our Siloam Springs facility as the disposal destination — a local address the City of Siloam Springs Water Department can verify is licensed and ADEQ-regulated. This makes your compliance chain locally auditable end to end.
Siloam Springs sits in the Illinois River headwaters region — a sensitive watershed where proper FOG management directly protects downstream water quality. A licensed local processing facility means grease waste from Siloam Springs kitchens is treated to ADEQ standards before discharge rather than hauled out of the watershed for disposal elsewhere.
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