ROH §43-5A.2
Where commercial grease and cooking oil waste must go
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗Anyone who takes commercial grease or cooking oil waste from a business must bring it to a recycling facility and unload it there. The facility must turn it into a usable product or send it to another recycling facility. The city director can pause these rules during service interruptions or when recycling capacity is too low.
businesses
The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Required transport of commercial FOG waste and commercial cooking oil waste to recycling facility and required conversion to marketable product
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) Any person who removes commercial FOG waste or commercial cooking oil waste from a business shall transport the waste to a recycling facility and unload the waste there.
(b) Any person who comes into possession of commercial FOG waste or commercial cooking oil waste at a recycling facility shall either:
(1) Convert the waste into biodiesel or renewable fuel, compost, or another marketable product; or
(2) Transport the waste to another recycling facility and unload the waste there.
(c) The director may, on the director’s own initiative, suspend the requirements of subsections (a) or (b), or both:
(1) During the period of a work stoppage or any other interruption of recycling transport service or recycling facility service; or
(2) Whenever the director determines that there are inadequate recycling facilities or there is inadequate recycling capacity to dispose of all commercial FOG waste or commercial cooking oil waste in the city at a recycling facility.
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