Restaurants are Strapped for Cash as Food and Cooking Oil Prices Rise Wingstop, a popular fast-service chicken brand, recently announced they’re changing their name to Thighstop due to a shortage of chicken wing availability (the price of the wing went from $0.98 to $3.22- that’s per wing!). As pandemic restrictions lift, the increased presence in… Read more »
A Recycling Company Serious About Going Green As a subsidiary of JBS, MOPAC takes pride in our environmental and sustainable initiatives, which just last year included going completely landfill free. In 2021, we are happy to announce that through JBS, we have announced a global commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by… Read more »
So you’ve opened a restaurant- you’ve got a location, a business plan, a name, and have probably already worked out most of a menu to present to customers. Well, congratulations! Sometimes that can be the hardest part of the decision making process. Once all of the big picture ideas have come together, it’s time to… Read more »
The Power of Meat 2020– This year, the 2020 Annual Meat Conference, hosted by the The Food Industry Association, the Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research, as well as the North American Meat Institute took place. Together, these groups released their annual Power of Meat study, which explores consumer trends among the meat industry…. Read more »
FRYING BACON? THINK TWICE ABOUT WHERE YOU DUMP YOUR GREASE. Did you know not to flush or dump grease, fats and oils down the drain? Not everyone knows or cares about how important recycling used cooking oil is. This London wastewater company knows firsthand how many people are ignorant about what should or should not… Read more »
The Life-Cycle of Cooking Oil (Recycling Used Cooking Oil) Much like a food chain or life cycle, cooking oil also goes through a process of transformation and change Cooking Oil has been a staple of human culture for thousands of years, with the ancient Greeks crushing olives and heating them under the sun for olive… Read more »
Whether you are trying to cook a meal for your family and trying to find the healthiest cooking oil, or if you are deep frying pounds of chicken wings and want to know what cooking oils won’t overpower the flavor, MOPAC can help you find which oil is the best. Flavor, price health impact, and… Read more »
Helping our environment starts with each of us. MOPAC has put together a list of how to properly dispose of used cooking oil, depending on quantity. Properly disposing of used cooking oil is not always an easy thing. FOGs or Fats, Oils, and Grease, have been a plaguing problem for water treatment facilities for the… Read more »
Small Tank Solution MOPAC is excited to announce that we have recently unveiled a small tank solution to add to our customized solutions plan. For over fifty years MOPAC has provided drums and tanks for our customer for their outdoor used cooking oil problems, but we’ve decided to try something new. We hear our customers… Read more »
There has never been more restaurants in the US than there are today, but there have been equally less and less customers entering the doors to this seemingly ever growing sector. The average American is now spending about half of their allotted food money on restaurants per paycheck instead of the grocery store, yet independently… Read more »
The U.S. Wastes 40% of Its Consumable Food The United States only consumes about 60-70% of the food that it produces. In 2010 alone, the USDA estimates that about 133 billion pounds of food was tossed out, or about $161 billion dollars annually. Food waste happens at every step of the food process from the… Read more »
The fuel that has run your car and most engines since its appearance has been petroleum. The carbon-based refined oil is increasingly becoming a scarce & expensive commodity. So the twenty-first century has made it its mission to find an alternative source of fuel, one that is reliable yet not ever-dwindling. There are several… Read more »
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Protect Your Business & Your Assets UCO Recycling is a competitive business, make sure you are getting the most from your efforts to dispose of it properly. (cooking oil theft) Any business that uses a process that involves oil or grease (vegetable or animal) has a byproduct afterwards, aptly called used cooking oil. This oil… Read more »
Fueling Our Community & Environment Mopac Rendering recycles close to 8 million gallons of used vegetable oils per year for distribution into the fats and animal feed ingredient industries and the environmentally friendly bio-fuels market. We see our participation in the bio-fuels market throughout the world as an opportunity to further our commitment to reducing… Read more »
